Originally Posted by
stewyb
You are being slightly naive if you don’t think that EZY/RYR would not want to cherry pick a core handful of the most profitable routes. These airlines have built their business models on being opportunistic over the years and I’m certain they could readjust their networks to fly W patterns on said routes at fairly short notice if the money stacks up!
No I don't think I'm being naive. I think that the vast majority of Flybes network wouldn't be of interest to them. If it was why aren't they operating routes like that now? If you look at Ryanair especially it's almost withdrawn from the UK domestic market and Easyjet tends to only operate on the big trunk routes. Ie Scotland to London or Belfast to the bigger regional airports. They may add some extra seats here and there but I'd be surprised if they starting launching routes like Edinburgh to Exeter or Manchester to Southampton.
I do hope that we never have to find out whether I'm being naive or not!