Originally Posted by
MELKBQF
A very interesting article.
Airlines have dual obligations, holding a high capacity RPT licence and also commercial agreements (with airports and navigation service providers) to fly a published schedule.
Serial offenders, historically have been low fare airlines. The benefit being that with low yielding airfares, high load factors can be maintained, whilst curtailing operating expense.
Perhaps rumoured crew shortages are impacting?
Perhaps also reduced maintenance expenditure is telling?
A quick check of online booking options shows enormous divergence between the company and competitors and this is well detailed by Michael Pascoe, highlighting the reported operating margin.