Originally Posted by
toledoashley
The question being what exactly can VS do to adjust at Heathrow - there isn’t as much room to play around with there. The key to me seems to be Manchester - and even if they move assets from Gatwick to strengthen the case for a flyBe feeder. I fear for the outlying smaller bases (Norwich, Cardiff, Doncaster and even Birmingham), the more leisure orientated routes seem to be the most logical to go first.
116D, where those 195’s end up will be interesting given some of them were being farmed off to Stobart!
Although I agree that some unprofitable regional routes may see the chop, I can't see why Stobart were brought in as partners if the regional routes were to be dropped. If this was purely about connecting into VS (And partner airlines), why wouldn't VS go it alone without Stobart? They could let the current BE team run things whilst pulling the strings to make the changes they want.