EI-BUD
I would
LOVE EZY to take over BMIBaby. This would help MAN in many ways. Highest income LC airline in Europe buying out BMIBaby and setting up shop at the airport. Not too bad, eh?
I would be very cautious though about the takeover. EZY would enter new grounds:
Birmingham when already have East Midlands
Strengthening at East Midlands from one of BMIBaby's main bases.
Manchester when already have Liverpool
Cardiff when already have Bristol
There are also other problems:
Rome flights operated at different Italian airports
EZY having to take over Irish routes, which wouldn't go down well with FR
New Jersey and Newquay airports
Upsides:
Many of the airports currently served by BMIBaby are also on the EZY map:
Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, East Midlands, Amsterdam, Paris CDG, Prague, Geneva, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Rome, Barcelona, Palma, Alicante, Murcia, Malaga, Faro and Lisbon are all served by both airlines.
This would surely mean EZY would have the most UK bases out of any carrier in Britain:
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Belfast, Liverpool, Manchester, East Midlands, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted!
That would mean you are never more than 1 1/2 hours away from an EZY base! Amazing!
