All logical stuff from FlyBe. With Q400s arriving faster than they can be crewed expect more new routes and possibly a CWL base if not next year then in 09. BE and baby can co exist at CWL if they want to. I'm sure people will disagree but CWL domestics are Turboprop routes if you want multiple daily rotations. There just isn't the business for multiple daily 737s to GLA, BFS, ABZ, EDI, etc.. Fly Be will give CWL a descent domestic network. Baby will probably not fight. The routes make no money anyway. Baby's bread and butter is the med and will be eastern europe.
I totally disagree with the proposition CWL must have a JFK link before Emirates will be interested. People will travel to CWL from the west country for a link through DXB to asia, the far east and Australia. America has become a total irrelevance. HOWEVER, until CWL's multitude of transport and infrastructure problems are addressed Emirates won't have a barge pole long enough. They are coming to this part of the world and as ever it will be CWL or BRS and at the moment like it or not all the bean counters love BRS. CWL doesn't just need to be as good it needs to be a whole load better to just complete.