Can't see Cosmos expanding on their own from any regional bases as the brand just isn't strong enough with enough trade presence to go it alone. Maybe, if they have buy-in from Tui or Cooks to part share then it may have some legs.
ABZ/NQY was tried as an experiment to see if there was a market, initially during the winter. It seemed to work ok until Globespan based units at ABZ which proved to be too much capacity for a market of less than 500k population. NQY decided that every pax should pay an additional £5 per departing pax for the privilige of Bettys tea bar and the man doing the refuelling, marshalling, baggage unloading......
I'd like to see ZB at LBA and STN.
Leeds is a market that is essentially cherry-picked by LS and whenever ZB have gone head-to-head with LS they seem to more than hold their own. Even when FR have come onto ZB markets in LTN/BHX/MAN they don't appear to faze them.
Stansted is starting to get some gaps appearing given EZYs fixation with LGW and FRs ending of preferential rates and with BA now looking to finally start to take LGW seriously after God knows how many years there look to be interesting times ahead (look for GO2 to set up base at LGW and take over all BA shorthaul ops possibly in conjunction with Air Berlin). ZB could capitalise on that.
Interesting times ahead...