The airline industry is a large school playground and inevitably it's full of bullies. What I find bizarre is that some on here believe this only happens at one level.
Business is business and it's survival of the fittest. Never has this been more evident when you look at the highstreet! The online firms have bullied Woolworths on price and service, they couldn't compete and now they're gone! Given the state of the market, Flybe will seek to stregthen it's business in whatever way possible. Unfortunately when any business does this it will often be to the detriment of another, this is what competition does. If Flybe become complacent or don't deliver what they promise then the gap will exist for another carrier to form and come in underneath them, in the same way as Flybe will with AirSouthwest!
Did we all sit and complain about poor old BA when Easyjet started to kill them on the domestics? Did they do the same in Ireland when Ryanair did exactly the same to Aer Lingus? No, we celebrated these events in the interests of competition. You can't have it both ways! Will AirSouthwest, Eastern and others be around next year, maybe, maybe not but where one airline fails, it makes another stronger, and the world just keeps on turning!
