Wanna Be There
" Who is to say, that under LH ownership, bmi baby actually fight their corner for once, after all, some people might actually prefer using BHD over BFS, or even WW over EZY? "
Up until WW moved to Bhd, pax had the choice of using Bfs or Bhd. About 8k pm made a choice to use Bfs, when they could have used Bhd. So I think it is fair to assume that there are about 8k pm who are showing a preference to use Bfs, I know that might come as a surprise. That in the face of a better schedule from Flybe as opposed to a not very good one from WW. Let us make an assumption that those 8k migrate back to Bfs. The pax level for Bhd - Man is about 16k pm. If the figures go back to about these levels, but now Man - Bhd has 2 carriers with about an extra 500 seats pd approx, then what happens? Use a little imagination and assume the pax totals settle down to pre WW move levels, what happens then?
I would also argue that Ezy has a greater pulling power than either WW or Flybe.