However didnt flybe do a LPL and BRS from BHD many moons ago that was pulled due to low yeilds?
I think Bristol was way back in the F27 era
The BHD-BRS route was operated by Flybe (as Flybe and in its previous incarnations as far back as its Jersey European days) continuously for much of the 1990s (if not earlier) and on into this century until it was axed at the end of October 2006 because, it was generally assumed, of the easyJet route from BFS.
For a number of years the airline flew three rotations a day between BRS and BHD with one routing via Isle of Man.
Flybe had flown in competition with easyJet for about three years and in 2004 carried 76,000 passengers on the BHD route against easyJet's 232,000 on the BFS route.
2005 saw 62,000 passengers on the BHD-BRS and in 2006 the route was reduced to daily before being withdrawn, having carried 25,000 in the ten months of that year.
BHD-BRS remained unserved until the end of March 2009 when Ryanair commenced the route.
In the past few years the easyJet BFS-BRS route has seen passenger numbers falling, mainly because rotations have been reduced, although this coming winter it is back to 3 x daily on some days.
This year Ryanair carried more passengers on its BHD-BRS in June and July than easyJet did on its BFS-BRS and in August both airlines carried over 14,000 passengers.
I have no access to the yields for either route of course.