My First Choice
Economies of scale etc.
Over the last 5 years or so, the traditional package holiday has taken a hammering. Every travel agent can now "tailor make" trips to Spain and the rest of the world. Hotel only operators which travel agents use will act to cover the question of "health and safety" and finally most customers are now happy to book each of the parts - flights, hotels and transfers individually. Very often there's not much in the difference pricewise.
Now given that the market overall hasn't grown by a huge amount - allow back the amount that scheduled low cost and traditional carrier now have and you end up with a shrinking market. So I think it's shrewd of FC to flog mainline as I'm sure they use a lot of scheduled flights for their "specialist" markets. It leaves MYT with a bigger slice of a deminishing market. There will always be room for the traditional package just less so.
Shamrogue