Originally Posted by
LTNman
So how much more money should not only this government borrow but other governments borrow to save aviation? Even if much of it fails due to this virus and household names disappeared there will always be new players coming out of nowhere to fill the gaps when opportunities arise while the survivors will emerge stronger with less competition.
Using Flybe at Southampton as an example. That airport was left with almost no routes when Flybe failed yet despite the pandemic other airlines are introducing replacement services for those more profitable routes.
Very true. Unless things change very quickly I can see some very big and long standing names disappearing. The result with be directors and senior managers putting together new, smaller niche players to fill the void. Over time some will fail, others will merge, and in 10 - 15 years passengers will face the same lack of choice they have now, certainly for IT passengers - supposing of course the IT doesn't whither away on the vine as new technologies that we haven't even thought of yet rise up. In the interim think 1970s and 1980s, and to cover the flying perhaps a number of smaller primarily charter airlines.
As regards airports, it has been said for years there are too many commercial airports, not particularly in UK but across Europe. I don't doubt that a few will wind up as housing estates and business parks over the next decade, a process expedited by the fallout from Covid-19.