Originally Posted by
P330
That is interesting.
I believe Eastern don’t directly sell anymore, so if Flybe went, how would Eastern be able to sell capacity on their flights? Presumably, they would have to resurrect their own sales side? Clearly I am thinking of the MME operation which will soon have a very big Eastern presence (sold through Flybe).
If they cherry picked the profitable routes and ignored the chaff I would have thought setting a new independent reservations / sales operation may be a small price to pay. The trick would be to not pick up any of the more marginal routes, and given that my hypothesis involves taking on E-jets, then thin routes would also be a no no.
Don't begin to know how they perform financially with Flybe, but I would imagine the likes of BHX and SOU to GLA / EDI may be interesting, also perhaps routes like BHX and MAN to Milan and Stuttgart could prove viable provided the leasing costs on the 190/195s were a better deal than the one that Flybe got themselves into.