Prices/Bases comments
The prices comments above - just remember, an airline will charge what they can get away with, balanced by market forces. This is not a charity and if people want to fly and are prepared to pay that price then business is done.
If you think the price is too high, you won't be travelling - end of!
Regarding opening/closing bases. A business has to continuously re-evaluate where it gets its revenue from. Obviously when they open a base they forecast that it is worthwhile financially, when they close it it is not. End of story. An airline is not a love affair, it is a business. It is only by opening/closing bases starting/stopping routes strategically, that this airline has survived this far.
Under Luftie who knows what can happen and who pulls the strings and directs the flow.
If it is a viable business it will survive, if not then it won't.