If Flybe can't make a route work on a 78 seat prop, how could the likes of Loganair make it work on a 50 seat jet? Granted there's one less crew member to cover the cost of, and am I right in thinking Loganair own the ER4's?
Is it down to internal overheads? Lease costs? Pricing strategy?
Flybe would be better off helping Eastern in get in better shape and look to use 50 seat props to take over the marginal routes that might support higher prices and frequency for business travellers and use their bigger props on the routes with higher demand?
I mean is there really demand for 3 EXT-MAN flights a day but only one EXT-EDI?
And 7 BHX-EDI flights / 7 BHX-GLA?
Surely chopping BHX-EDI/GLA down a bit would help the yield improve and there's still plenty of options for the frequency demands of business travellers.