Originally Posted by
Sharklet_321
Very true.
But it wouldn’t stop Easyjet trying some inbound flying from European bases to SOU. Enough that it might act as a deterrent to people living in Southampton/Portsmouth and thinking of using BOH instead of LGW. Thus keeping business in EasyJet.
However, EasyJet do seem to serve two different markets between SOU & BOH if you take GVA as the example, so perhaps the catchments are less overlapping than we thought?
The BOH and SOU Geneva flights are both basically
Ski flights - Winter season only, local demand is high.
I was at first surprised that BOH joined in with SOU but that shows that EZY had a clear market away from both it's LGW and BRS Ski flights,
coupled that with not just weekend flights scheduled, but also some mid-weeks were added too.
The local areas in BOH and SOU are both endowed with well-healed clientele who like to go to Ski.
BACF also operated this past winter the weekend Ski flights to Salzburg and Chambery (2) from SOU and Crystal and Inghams Ski taking allocations, so they sell well and seem to be back on sale for next winter.
TUI fly EXT to Chambery for Crystal Ski.
EZY and TUI go from BRS and serve various Ski destinations
which is still in the BOH and EXT 'catchment' areas.