Jet2 at LBA
At LBA Jet2 are in an almost unique position of having a large catchment area almost to themselfs, it will not last. No other medium size airport has only one LoCo carrier and this is the reason that LBA lags well behind other airports in terms of pax numbers, have they reached 3 million yet? it should be closer to 7 million.
Ryanair will change that much as they have at EMA and else where and Jet2 will have to learn to live with it. With some routes PM can't just walk away because he has boxed himself in with Jet2 hollidays.com and once you go down the IT route your cost go through the roof if you start changing airports/flydates ect, if it was such a clever idea MOl would have done it years ago he didn't!
Ryanair at Leeds will give PM a heart attack and stop its growth elsewhere in its tracks because LEEDS is the Jet2 cash cow.
Sadly PM is boxed into a corner he depends on LBA they aren't big enough to see off ryanair(the flying bit made 300k last year) or offer anyone else a dream deal (DSA MME) so they will have to live with it and use the advantages that they have despite old fuel hungry kit, Ryanair are a dreadful airline to deal with and sadly Jet2, baby and others have morphed into much of the same, this requires a step change in customer handling skill's and that is one area that MOL is at his weakest He doen't have any and the rule makers are slowly catching up with him, i would rather not fly than fly with Ryanair and there are plenty of other airlines out there, but Jet2 need to get their heads around that they are coming , if not them others!! The only way that Bridgepoint can give LCC £XXXX m is by ramping up the pax numbers to fill the car park and expand the shopping.
Good luck to all
PS Next time MOL slags off Jet2 as a "crappy little airline" then PM should keep his gob shut, look what the Russians are doing Georgia