Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
1. Look at their catchment, the population base available to them. Europe 749 million people. USA 332 million people. London alone is around 14 million people, half the Australian population.
2. Ryanair uses secondary airports to reduce costs. Girona for Barcelona, Stanstead for London, Beauvais for Paris etc. I do not know about the other two.
Neither of these points apply in the Australian market. Tony Fernandez spoke wise words about entering the Australian market.
1) The catchment is not as relevant as you may think
One example a 5 x daily verses a 3 x weekly, if the flights are still full, does this really matter?
European and American LCCs all do plenty of sub daily pairs along with multi daily pairs
Plus European carriers are also competing with Fast Rail, better highway networks and shorter distances
2) Secondary Airports
MCY, OOL, WTB, NTL, SWA, MEB and AVV
I reckon these qualify...