Originally Posted by
Skipness One Foxtrot
It's more that the offering to market changed. With no Ryanair or easyJet offerings, BACON may well be around today offering high frequency high fare business type service. But that old world died and so did they.
The EMB145s were ordered by British Regional and Brymon (both flying as BA) idependently pre merger for the likes of Scotland- BRS/CWL/SOU, but as soon as GO opened a BRS base, the market changed. BA ended up competing with itself at one point! I think the penny dropped quite soon after delivery that the business model they were ordered for was changing rapidly.
Yes also a history lesson today.
BA should have ditched them not hung onto them and then try to price match or operate a million times a day to Frankfurt ( the regions didn’t demand that much frequency)
Total disaster through BA competed with itself in the regions for several decades before .
The twin Birmingham Manchester mini hubs with sometimes parallel onward connections to Scotland and Belfast made little sense other than reflecting political realities of the time .
Regionally they may have survived by consolidating over one or the other , and indeed several years beforehand a transport report recommended just such a scenario with some services hived off to the likes of Dan Air and Britannia . Never happened through.
Ah that sale and withdrawal from the regions never does get old on these forums among those of a certain age
