Does anyone know if KLM have ever been approached to operate from Bournemouth? It would be ideal for the following reasons:
Significant inbound potential in the summer from overseas foreign students - they have money and usually fly in on Alitalia, Iberia, Lufthansa and then bus down from LHR. Fly into Bournemouth via Amsterdam instead.
Significant outbound potential from the Bournemouth catchment to world-wide destinations during the winter when Bournemouth's service industry is in quiet mode.
Southampton, Portsmouth, Isle of White, Exeter catchments would also be attracted by a Bournemouth KLM operation. The only other option would be BRS or LHR.
I could see a 3 times daily ERJ-190 operation being entirely viable.