Originally Posted by
Alteagod
I would suspect rhat this will all be very much a use it or lose it schedule that will be subject to some teeeking in the months ahead. I would not be surprised to see additional destinations appear especially next summer, JER or NQY for example come to mind. Some left field destinations could be SEN or ORK
Exactly, great slack in the schedule on return of 1st wave aircraft, summer seasonal routes come to mind like Jersey and Isle of Man (a daily mid morning would work fine and just make an easyJet airbus operation unattractive to them, it's a hop at circa 70 miles. Other opportunities might be Cardiff as a daily leisure orientated route, Cork has potential perhaps an early departure from ORK to BHD (and vv) and staging on to say BHX, BHD may also provide flexibility for the BHX and EDI to Shannon routes which were ideally timed to meet the Transatlantic services ex Shannon, but that's all clearly for a later date. Donegal could be worth a try, if marketed properly could be a surprise.
A flight to Shannon every other day might also be worthy of consideration once the US get over the pandemic, feeding passengers to the US ...
The volumes on these routes when served by Flybe were impressive particularly MAN and BHX. Given the lower capacity and the reduced demand, no reason why EIR can't capture a respectable share of the market...