Originally Posted by
Buster the Bear
I am astonished, that one of the UK's largest tourist areas, is devoid of a functioning airport!
It may be devoid of a functioning airport... but it's served by at least 5!
I will, in a weak moment, admit that there seems to be a dysfunction in the UK regional airline market. It seems that while there are many airports similar to Carlisle in both the UK and Eire that ought to be able to support some kind of flying, and that if it was possible for one airline to get a monopoly of serving them all then that airline could probably make a fair stab at it. However a large element of that dysfunction might be that Heathrow doesn't have a third and fourth runway? It seems to me that these are the airports that could only support a service that was also a feeder service to a hub, and that people would only trust it enough to book it if it was run by a larger concern that... well... wasn't some virtual airline with 19 seat flights operated by people you've never heard of...