Originally Posted by
mwm991
Are CWL and DSA not subsidised?
Cardiff is. Doncaster isn’t anymore, contract was rewritten (as far as I was aware) due to the fact that the base was making money and flybe werent getting all of that profit due to the blackbird contract agreement. So they have “gone it alone”.
My understanding is both based are doing well and loads are good. I don’t buy into these base closures, why close a base that is profitable?? You’d still have the issue of where to base the aircraft and the headache of crew redundancies.