Originally Posted by
shamrock7seal
Given the flurry of activity in and out of LHR by Flybe, could they be candidate to resurrect the London link? I could imagine a Teesside London link being stronger than London Newquay surely.
I would personally love that and agree that the local demand would be better but there are a few other things at play here:
- Newquay-London is subsidised by the government to the tune of £5 per passenger each way.
- Newquay is over 5 hours on the train to London, Darlington>Kings Cross is less than half that
- Teesside is already linked to a hub airport, FlyBe have no competition at Newquay (apart from Aer Lingus to Dublin for N. America)
- There will ge a good deal of outbound tourist traffic from London>Newquay, more than would be coming to Teesside
- Unless FlyBe have any spare slots at Heathrow, they would need to find £30m for a slot pair