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The Nutts Mutts
I also wonder if perhaps they were holding off to see if SOU got rid of their performance limitations and potentially increased their opening hours. Now that neither of those things have really happened despite the runway extension, Jet2 have made a decision and plumped for BOH as the better candidate on the south coast.
If you look at the destinations, many are beyond economically viable loads from SOU, even with the Neo. It appears to be merely a case of the increased options available with BOH’s longer runway.