Inkjet,
you are making a lot of assumptions. Since this is an anonymous forum, it makes little difference what my current employment situation is.
FR have 7/8 at EMA and 3/4 at BHX in other words around the same as WW so what?
So what you ask, well, I think if you have any understanding this demonstrates quite clearly that the concept of Fortress Midlands is ridiculous.
WW has no money to spend, so where the budget will come from to re-fleet is rather a mystery. DLH have been pouring money into a black hole for the past couple of years, on top of having to pay way way over what the group value actually was. At some point the shareholder will say enough is enough. Purely from a business perspective, baby is not generating profit and will need multi-million pound investment just to make it comply with legal requirements, never mind a new fleet.
So let us quickly summarise what we know:
- DLH did not want WW to be created
- DLH own a loss making entity they are hostile to
- WW needs vast amounts of money spent on it just to maintain parity
- The fleet is decrepit and needs replaced
- The passenger offering is not wowing the public
- Load Factors and yields are not wowing the money men
Does the move from Tiny Town to Hastings House tell us anything? I will leave that up to you to interpret, but I do not see it as a positive.