Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
Two very SOU thread type responses! Do the cash rich skiers not want to fly anywhere else? Is the drop off in business demand the same elsewhere?
It's easy to blame Eastern, but if these routes are so good, why is nobody else interested?
LOL, yes cash rich skiers (mainly Consultant Surgeons in my experience lol) do go elsewhere - usually in the School Hols >> Xmas/NY Easter, and in Summer >> Nice Faro Bergerac Limoges Calvi Skiathos and Olbia are all popular for them
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Cavokblues says:
Has the demand for previous successful routes like SOU - MAN and Paris fallen because of COVID or because there hasn't been a competent airline on it,
or a mixture of both?
The latter.......
Seems nobody else is interested because we have now fewer UK domestic airlines that want to fly these routes, nor have the right aircraft for it.
Yes, EZY can fill an Airbus from JER to MAN BFS LTN LGW LPL etc, but they would not fill a twice daily MAN-SOU, or JER-SOU.
Ryanair as we all know, cannot operate in, or out of SOU - Had they could, then it's possible they would be here by now - not sure though that UK or Irish flights to/from SOU would work for them, as Ryanair at BOH now have only a few DUB and EDI flights - both are not daily and some are at crap times.
BUT its cheap as chips.
Tomorrow's BOH-EDI is sold out (189 seats)