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True Blue
I believe that the "shoes" aspect has changed recently and Dublin
(as an example) was doing it well before BHX as I found out last year.
Although I am sure that there has been moans but all the people I have heard from going through BHX recently (11 last week alone) have
stated that there have been queues but little whinging.
In fact from work colleagues and friends most comments have been
positive (probably due to the pax figures) and if there is a whinge
it is baggage reclaim or the oppressive looking T1 airside.
CVT Dog
I must admit I for one found the Coventry flights an irritant at first,
(opinion has changed although probably would not use it), due to
the fact why have flights from one airport where another just up the road
has plenty of slots and space. I also questioned the viability of the
operation and boy must Coventry have a low cost base as last
winters pax would have finished most airlines.
This summers pax in fact showed a greater percentage decrease than
BHX with May to August down between 8 and 18%.
However I do realise that Thomsonfly now have a tighter operation and all flights average around the 100+ pax in summer except Orly. Next summer
is even tighter with some aircraft "W" out for the day.
Is it competition for BHX, probably but as CC stated in the last post
it is a different market and the only airlines that could really hurt BHX
in the short-term with a Coventry operation is Easyjet and Ryanair.
Coventry as a city has a reasonbly big population and should be able to support some flights but Thomsonfly I think have found it is not as easy
as it looks.
Pete