Although Cork is a slightly different market to Birmingham the same thing
has already happened here.
The CSA load factor hovered between 70 & 90% depending on the time of
year and then along came BMI Baby and doubled the monthly traffic
between the two cities.
CSA stuck it out for a bit but and load factor did not go down by that
much as CSA were taking business and connecting pax and Baby...well
lets say, they had a different type of pax in general of course
.
One assumes that it was yield that took the nosedive and CSA were
soo history. It appears that they simply cannot compete with the LCC's
on smaller markets.
Edinburgh has retained its CSA service but am I correct in thinking
GSM are about to restart, which could lead to trouble for them?
I think Glasgow had a service as well and that went at similar time
to BHX.
Manchester is a bigger market and they have retained their CSA
but I would not be surprised if Cork is not the last.
BHX is now almost under-served now on Prague with one evening
Baby averaging over 115 per flight. At least it is probably making
some money for Baby but still it was nice to have a choice while
it lasted.
Pete