Hope they can make it!
I sincerely hope that Aer Arran manage to survive the current climate. But I think that there's going to be a lot more blood.
BTW BladePilot,
I found your post (including typesetting) to be grand!
vikingivesterled,
To the best of my knowledge, they had six PSO routes and lost two (Knock to CityJet and Kerry to RyanAir), leaving Galway, Sligo, Donegal and Derry.
You do however, IMO, bring up an interesting point about price fixing.
O'Leary is a mad little fella, but no matter how much you dislike his antics, you have to admire what he has achieved. It is one of the more unpleasant aspects of competition in the free(ish) market, when you see a big boy flatten a minnow by using their superior size. However, if you remove competition from the market, the results are even worse (ESB, Board Gas, etc). Just look at how communications is starting to improve in Ireland (and how long it took to do so) after the Eircom monopoly was broken (if not removed completely).