Three points. 1/ assuming Flybe 2 had access to the route performance data from Flybe 1, if SOUMAN was such a gold mine why didn’t they operate it? 2/ EZY SOUMAN? There’s currently nobody on SOULGW and I would have thought that if EZY wanted a short rotation on a MAN or LGW based aircraft that would make more sense. While not as bad as from Hampshire, it’s not great by either rail or road from Sussex to Manchester. 3/ the days when 18 seat aircraft could make money on UK domestics (as suggested above) are long gone apart from where there are some very unique and specific circumstances, primarily a market that must travel and won’t spend all its time complaining that the airline with the Jetstream charges more for a domestic flight than EZY does for a flight to Spain (cf discussions ad nauseum about LM fares SOU - Scotland).