Originally Posted by
RW20
There is just no justification for the Runway extension now. Easy,Ryanair are contracting and pulling out of bases such as Southend and possibly Bournemouth
So there is little hope of anybody setting up a Sun route base from SOU!
Southampton has to try to survive with internal routes for the foreseeable future,with restricted hours and mainly prop operations.
Touch and go on long term survival
Yes, but they'll be back - in two years time - air travel will be back to where we were in January 2020.
The airfields that had the vision to see the future getting back to normal will be the ones that make it.
SOU - has that philosophy right now.