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TCAS FAN
Nada/rien/nothing!
The Flybe developments will have undoubtedly have significant implications for most UK regional airports, positive and negative, which will probably be significant by the summer 2020 season. The new Flybe owner has said that it wants to concentrate on feed to Virgin Long Haul at LHR and MAN, but not LGW – Flybe recently sold their only LGW slots to Vueling. It's also worth remembering that Virgin is 49% owned by Delta, and is now 31% owned by the Air France-KLM group, in which Delta also own 10%. On that basis it is likely that the new Flybe (Virgin) will be operating more domestic routes and flights into LHR and MAN, and its probable that links from UK regions to the AF/KLM hubs of CDG and AMS will increase to feed AF/KLM/Delta using Virgin code share. So we can expect new links to both LHR and MAN, which will impact UK & CI airports.That still leaves a good many existing routes that will either survive or fall based on aircraft availability and profitability. Competitors will certainly be after any low hanging fruit, taking advantage of the uncertainties at Flybe meantime. So change, good and bad is ahead, especially at the existing Flybe hubs.I could see Ryanair moving, either directly or indirectly, on some of the Dublin routes, to Cardiff for instance. It is likely too that the return of DUB-BOH, announced at 4/week, will be increased to daily in short order.
SOU will certainly see some big changes too, probably negative initially (a reduction of Flybe flights), but more likely positive longer term - new operators. FF