I'm not too sure that Flybe are overly concerned about Scot or BMI Regional...... if Flybe do come onto this route then neither of the others will be able to compete on price if the Q400 is used.
The substantially lower operating costs of the Q400 when comparing this to the ERJ145 will surely mean that if BMI compete on price, they will lose considerable amounts of cash on this service. You also have considerable connecting traffic (eg) ex JER/GCI that Flybe can tap into.
The only way that BMI could make SOUAMS pay would be for them to get an interline agreement and codeshare with KLM. This might enable them to operate profitably, but they'd have to get this off Scot first. Who knows?
Will BMI on SOUAMS go the same way as EDIMUC and LTNBRU?
Last edited by JobsaGoodun; 1st Jun 2006 at 18:22.