FR is to cease at least 3 routes out of GRO next summer : GRZ, MME and DSA...with the SNN addition, would make 4.
It appears DSA e MME will share the same fate as for FR flights : only destination left should be ALC. Both of them will get just a summer-only service to Costa Blanca.
It might be good to see a package holidays operator (TOM, TCX) to come back with a single based a/c in MME during the summer season heading to popular sunny spots such as PMI, MAH, REU, ALC, TFS, ACE, HER, DLM, AYT, PFO and so on..
It's a real shame MME has done nothing lately to attract again a based holiday operator...all pax are going up the road to NCL and what is left for MME ? Nothing but crumbs.
If we have a glance to the summer schedule we only have :
ABERDEEN (Eastern Airways, sched.)
SOUTHAMPTON (Eastern Airways, sched.)
AMSTERDAM (KLM, sched.)
ALICANTE (Ryanair, sched.)
JERSEY (CIT/Airways Holidays/Discover Jersey, IT)
PALMA (Thomson Holidays/First Choice, IT)
DALAMAN (Holidays4u/Goldtrail, IT)
BODRUM (Holidays4u/Goldtrail, IT)
BOURGAS (Balkan Holidays, IT)
Plus a bunch of one-offs charter flights to :
VERONA (1 trip)
MALTA (1 trip)
FUNCHAL (1 trip)
NAPLES (1 trip)
all of them run by Newmarket Air Hols.
I would say pretty thin and steadily in decline as a network for a UK regional airport...Will S10 look better or worser than this..?