Originally Posted by
owenkirk2005
more airlines the better!
I'm not sure that I fully agree, I think there is a strong potential that if flybe did arrive at EMA, it would result in a bad fare war which bmibaby in particular probably couldn't afford to fight long in. EasyJet competed with bmibaby for a while on the EMA-Scotland flights, but there was far too much capacity and they quickly retreated to where they could make money flying to the continent. bmibaby have their own market on these flights, and still manage to keep fares pretty low but planes pretty full on these routes. Factor in competition from BHX and now more importantly than ever from the train, and it just seems it would be wasted planes, fuel and tarmac to have another airline trotting up and down the country on this route.