Originally Posted by
LBIA
Here's hoping somebody to replaces the ex Flybe operated Belfast City - Leeds route quickly as we now have no direct link between this part of Yorkshire and Northern Ireland.
Flybe were flying up to 5x daily Dash 8 and carried over 120,000 passengers last year alone.
I can't see 5 flights daily being replaced, but you would think somebody would be interested in one or perhaps two flights a day.
In a dream scenario BA would tag LBA-BHD on to a LHR-LBA service, although that will never happen as BA have zero interest in non London routes.
If there is a downturn in international travel then it might be attractive to Jet2 to use spare capacity to restore their former BFS-LBA routes as there is now no competiton from Flybe.
BHD were very reliant on Flybe so you could imagine they will be offering very good deals for airlines to start routes from there so you might even see Jet2 tempted fly from there. Ryanair don't have that many flights from BFS anymore, so although the pulled out of BHD previously they could be tempted back, and I'm sure a LBA route with no competition would be attractive.