Originally Posted by
asdf1234
I think the truth about Stobart Air and the FlyBe routes was that whilst the airport owned the airline, they used it to inflate the airport pax numbers and route network. Now the airline is owned by a consortium, they are happy to dump the SEN routes as they are deeply unprofitable.
I think there may be some truth in that. Stobart were certainly very keen to establish a wider route network in order to attract interest from other carriers. We shall see if other carriers take up any of the Stobart/Flybe routes, although maybe not until the Covid-19 situation starts to resolve itself.