Originally Posted by ezpz
DSA-GVA was always going to be a seasonal ski route.
STN makes all its money in the summer and very little in the winter. EMA makes very little money at all, so further expansion there is unlikely.
MAN is too close to LPL and the landing charges and slot availabilty would make expantion there unlikely.
BHX could be a possibilty. The competition would produce very low seat yields, so again unlikely.
The UK market is very saturated, so I am expecting to see new crew bases in mainland Europe. Could even be outside the EU.
They could base two aircraft to do Italy alone from BHX - a bit of
an embarrassment at present with the sum total - 2 BA Connect 145's
a day (one at weekends) to MXP from airport with over 9 million pax. Probably not enough to support a base but at least virtually no competition. Shame they do Venice and Rome from East Mids (with such high load factors) as I suppose it would be a bit pointless offering the same destinations 40 miles away (though Baby do on some routes).
OltonPete