Originally Posted by
runway30
Can you find me the queue of airlines willing to take on PSO routes? They are not in the UK. We no longer have a dynamic airline market with small airlines entering and leaving on a regular basis. This is because of the high costs of obtaining an operating licence and competition from bigger airlines. I suspect that the answer at Loganair will be funding PSO routes but the airline will need to be kept in business to operate those routes and you can't just bin 50% of the airline at no cost.
It doesn’t need to be a UK airline. Even after Brexit, the UK can legislate to allow EU airlines to continue to operate within the UK. In Sweden for example, LOT (polish), Nordica (Estonian) and AIS (Dutch) are operating PSO routes.