Originally Posted by
Albert Hall
Of course they will. It's a statement of the bleedin' obvious, surely - Flybe has gone bust having consistently sold £10 notes for a fiver.
If your view is that these types of routes will only work with an easyJet-style business model, then there are going to be a lot of unserved routes in the future then. To sustain their minimum unit size - rapidly rising towards 180 seats - with a twice daily frequency then you generate around 225,000 seats annually. You need to grow the market by 60% versus the Flybe historics to achieve typical LCC load factors on that. The Flybe pricing was low - too low to be sustainable. easyJet might be able to achieve the price point but simply won't get the volume.
The ongoing debate about easyJet at SOU is quite fanciful. The rumours are of a couple of smaller UK base closures coming up. It would be surprising if they want to open any new smaller bases of the nature that SOU would inevitably be - even if they were thinking about expansion at the moment.
Relentless negativity, its a wonder you even bother to wake up in the morning with that attitude.
I'm sure your location of Dorset has nothing to do with your prejudices..........