******! That's a real shame if it is true. Flown on the route a couple of times and loads were excellent. Full aircraft LCY/DND on a Saturday morning - not a typically busy time of day for travel from LCY or to DND and the return on a midweek mid-afternoon was also very busy. This may have changed though
Dundee needs a reliable service to LON and I thought that CB were doing just fine on the route (that's all I seem read in the local Dundee newspapers anyway!!) Scotairways seem to expect routes to be successful from day one though - routes need to mature and establish themselves through good marketing - especially from Dundee where the airport has been very underused even since the Business Air days to MAN. People are hadly aware that Dundee has an airport and even if they do know about it they don't know where they can fly to from there - take that from a Dundonian who has worked for a travel agent and an airline in Dundee.
Scotairways have operated a few routes on a very short term basis recently (INV/LCY, INV/AMS, ABZ/LCY) - that can't be at all good for the bank account. Mr Souter needs to get his investment working harder and stop them from 'dabbling' in silly routes. Keep LCY/DND and make it work if it isn't already I say. It's an hour's drive to EDI and ABZ from DND and 1.5 hours to GLA. There is no reason why a city with 150,000 population (plus the catchment area of Fife and Tayside) can't sustain a route to the nation's capital with a 29 seater four times a day - surely? 20 minute check in too!! The likes of AMS and PAR would prove popular too with Dundonians.
So come on Scotairways - stick with the route unless times are really very hard.