Originally Posted by
Alwayslistening
Have you seen the prices they are charging?? No way Donny or Cardiff are based that are losing money, no way.
Fair enough but if they were making money, why are they pulling the flying? They are try to compete flying aircraft half the size of their competitors from other nearby airports.
The problem is that the general public seem prepared to pay the taxi driver that takes them 10 miles to their local airport the same as the airline flying them halfway across Europe. I'm not saying it's wrong, its great for the travelling public but that airliner costs many times more than that taxi does to run.
You wouldn't walk into your local corner shop and expect to pay Tesco prices so if enough of the travelling public aren't prepared to pay more in big enough volumes for the convenience of flying from DSA then unfortunately, the routes aren't sustainable. Flybe have given it a good try but I guess they have to make difficult decisions to save the business.