saying forward bookings are very slow and are falling way short of targets.I think that Inkje needs to take off his rose tinted spetacles.3,They are losing cash hand over fist....Stn route is losing money every day.
Muteyshriek; I think you are right in your comments, BHD will notwork for WW in the long term, for a start, they are already closing well established routes to Cardiff and Manchester (MAN if not closing straight away is down to daily, waste of time) if the move to BHD was in any way beneficial they would never have closed routes down, shows that they cannot compete and a deliver a point of difference over Flybe, and the same will be the case to Europe, BHD is costly for parking etc, and EI, LS and especially EZY will fight for the market rigorously.
BHD backed the wrong horse in choosing WW for its big foray into Europe, a bit like Knock airport getting Flyglobespan onto Knock/Boston and JFK. The routes did well but as the airline went bust is a hard case to put to an airline as it seemed a route failed.
Im not convinced at this stage that BHD to Europe will materialise and oddly enough FR are carrying alot more passengers on x2 daily LDY STN than WW carry on BHD STN which this time last year was seeing monthly boardings in excess of 30k.
EI-BUD