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Originally Posted by
TCAS FAN
It would be interesting to see an airline based around the A220 flying regional routes around Europe - probably more expensive than a real LCO but cheaper than the likes of Loganair
I can see why people suggest it but i think the following need to be considered -
1/ in the first instance it will be interesting to see how EZY’s sunshine flights do. If they don’t prove extremely popular, given EZY’s very strong brand and recognition factor, there wouldn’t be much hope for a lesser known carrier operating an aircraft with higher ASK costs. 2/ if lesser known carrier did establish an operation with A220s successfully then there is a high risk that EZY or another with A320s would jump on it. You could of course say that the A220 operator should restrict itself to longer routes that the A320 cannot economically operate from SOU but that wouldn’t work as you need a mix of varying sector lengths to schedule effectively. 3/ it’s raised often enough but you have to consider SOU opening hours. If the last inbound of the day is regularly sent to BOH it would quickly kill the operation. The alternative of night stopping away is very expensive in terms of crew, hotac etc and really not feasible.