Domestic routes
It's an interesting move. For years now, the FR average sector length has been steadily creeping up (251 miles in 1997, 473 in 2003, 621 in 2007) and FR now flies routes (e.g. Canary Islands, Morocco and Malta) that are longer than many would have thought would have fitted the business model.
In the last year we've seen the BHD base with 5x dly on STN and now 2x daily on EMA, PIK and LPL. Add to this EDI - BOH twice daily, BOH - PIK now twice daily, HHN - SXF 3x daily, HHN - LBC, the new base at REU with mainly domestic routes, frequency increases from BGY to AHO and TPS. And now we've got 3 a day on DUB - KIR and the rumoured French routes.
Let's not forget that FR grew out of short, relatively high frequency routes, but these were over the Irish Sea at a time when people perhaps felt less strongly about their carbon footprints.
Will MOL's cunning plan work?