Originally Posted by
BHD2BFS
BBC are reporting that CWL, DSA and EXT routes will all finish from BHD, starting to think Connect will literally just connect most airports to hubs. Thin routes will more than likely to go.
The media really aren’t helping. Their poor reporting is making a bad situation worse (read over the Flybe thread if you wish to hear what appears to have been happening).
Anyway, my point. BE have stated that jet operations at those bases would cease. Isn’t EXT operated by a Dash 8? Ok, CWL and DSA are jet ops but the press release also states an intention to keep open routes using Dash 8’s from other bases.
Now unless BE can magic up some more Dash 8’s at short notice, it is safe to assume that capacity will need to be lost somewhere in the route network. But, that remains to be confirmed by them.
If the BBC reported exactly as you say, the facts out there now do not support their article.