Originally Posted by
TartinTon
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!
I get the point, but that is predicated on the assumption that any of the regional flying would work. Up against Emerald, BA and Aer Lingus (at the time) in BHD, KLM in Amsterdam, easyJet now running amok in BHD also, Loganair, Eastern and others - wasn't it simply a case that no matter what they did, anything worth doing was already being done by someone else and with very few exceptions, the only things left from Flybe 1.0 weren't worth doing?