ALLMCC - so lets get this straight, you want to remove healthy competition thus removing competitive pricing thus the fare paying public pay more for air travel.........you, I presume would prefer to see a monopoly on such routes?
"Really can't see them making a satisfactory yield unless they push up the fares which will make them uncompetitive against RE." - but do RE utilise their a/c like Jet2, it seems that Jet2 / Channex have the edge on most operators with regard to a/c generating turnover / utilisation.
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