Originally Posted by
AirportPlanner1
It’s a bit different though for Eastern and Blue Islands in that they are pre-existing independent airlines with little other business so must continue or die. Stobart Air only flies under the identity of others with the bulk of the business for EI. They could carry on with the SEN operation but in light of Covid-19 and collapse in bookings I wonder if they’re hiding behind the Flybe collapse (most of their passengers will consider themselves Flybe customers not Stobart) to minimise losses.
Yes - but to all intents, the SEN operation seemed to be a largely independent operation running under the flyBe name so I would have thought it would be relatively simple to bolt on a Stobart front-end and carry on. I too was wondering if they had seen the forward bookings and thought "Naaah..."