A very well ballanced post flitefone. I dont want the thread to be drawn into a debate of that nature as there is no competition anyway. It is interesting to here about your experiances with flybe, one thing I have found is that if you book way in advance the tickets can be as little as 30 quid which is not bad.
I hate ryanair with a passion and wish it only but bad luck. Its no better than tesco but at least they are good at what they do.
There were a lot of posters a while back who couldnt understand why bournemouth didnt have regional routes and I felt like some reality needed to be brought to this thread. Unfortunatelty Bournemouth is one of the dud airports scattered around this country and personally can only see it ending up like Coventry. Obviously hope not, never nice to see people lose their jobs and maybe if they focus on bucket and spade routes through charter companies it may not close.