Originally Posted by
Saabdriver1
That's rather amusing. Care to enlighten us to as your whereabouts last Friday?!!
Only the Flybe and Manchester threads on here are capable of provoking this level of reaction!!
Skipness raises an interesting point. From what little I know, none of the former Flybe management beyond the FD and DFO are involved in the new venture. It’s unlikely that this is purely an anti-Loganair vendetta.
Flybe 2 is backed by venture capital and one with a history of trying to create value by market consolidation.
Assuming the VC has any involvement in what routes the airline flies, and this isn’t simply a poor execution of an equally poor plan (which it could be), then picking fights with Emerald, Loganair, easyJet, KLM and BA has a different tone. It suggests that if you make yourself enough of a nuisance to enough people, one of them will eventually buy you out.
It’s the only logical explanation as to how you could possibly liberate any value from this scheme. If none of them play ball, all you have is a massively loss-making airline on which the VC eventually cuts its losses.