Originally Posted by
Flightrider
Heavens Mike - Norwich is barely relevant to the Flybe thread and yet here we are again. Give us a break, will you?
The Independant’s travel expert Simon Calder thinks otherwise.
But airports such as Cardiff and Norwich, which are heavily dependent on Flybe but are outside its central core, must be concerned. They have intense competition from nearby airports, Bristol and Stansted respectively.
Wrtiting in todays paper he suggests a new buyer will be pruning the current network to restore profitability.
I would be surprised if every Flybe flight that is currently on sale for the summer of 2019 actually takes off. I think it unlikely that the airline will cease to exist – the fact that several potential suitors are talking indicates it has value – but the current route network is an odd shape.
The central core of routes is likely to endure, because it is an efficient and coherent network. The Channel Islands services should mostly also look the same. But a route such as Doncaster-Sheffield to Alicante, operating three days a week, looks an outlier.
Full story here
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...-a8635186.html