Originally Posted by
Albert Hall
There have been frequent statements that the late delivery of the Q400s meant they couldn't build up fast enough and lacked scale, including in the administrator's report. It's rather hard to see how building up faster would have done anything other than burned even more money more quickly than they did.
Presumably, as has already been stated, because there were only 6 aircraft flying of which 5 were tasked with the preservation of the LHR/AMS slots and burning through the cash quickly as these routes could never be profitable on that size of aircraft. They needed the extra aircraft to come quickly in order to fly regional flying that actually could make money to absorb the losses incurred on the LHR slot play. All of which proved to be a fools errand in the end!