The business model for ASW was to pick up 20 at PLH and pick up another 20 at NQY and you have a nice loading.
If that model worked for ASW until Plymouth was closed, does this not open an opportunity for FlyBe to operate a similar model via Exeter?
On the flights that our family have flown from Exeter in the last year, load factors were low. A Newquay link could boost those load factors.
FlyBe's pricing has always seemed to me to be able to pick up more of the low cost fare seekers and take them off the roads and rail. They can book far ahead for the right fare and are additional to the business turn up and fly brigade who are prepared to pay higher fares.