Seen it posted elsewhere that when FlyBe based 2 x EJets at DSA it cost the airport operating company £1million per year. Suggestion that they were remiss for doing so. Nope, they wanted to grow passenger numbers. Do not assume that they had a long list of potential business lined up, cos they didn’t.
Sure I’ll get flamed for this, but it’s not my words. I knew they paid FlyBe to start up a base but I didn’t realise just how much it was. I remember in about 2011 when they ran a short season HUY-AGP the load factors were something like 97%.. their average for the DSA base? No idea but when I flew DSA-TXL and back there were around 25 people on the flight, on a 119 seat aircraft, on a Friday evening.
Last edited by pug; 1st Aug 2023 at 00:00.