@adfly said...
I could see the following working:
BCN - 5pw-daily
WAW - 3pw to cater for the large polish community in and around Southampton
MAH - 2pw
IBZ - 2pw
MPL - 2-3pw the three new French routes apparently did very well this year
FCO - 4pw
MXP - 5pw-daily
NAP - 2pw
MLA - 2pw - I believe this route used to be served by an Air Malta charter flight
INN - 1-2pw - Austrian/Inghams are cutting their BOH flight and INN is currently unnerved from SOU too
SOU-GRX would be nice, maybe once or twice a week, especially now that Ryanair has pulled out of Granada completely. The Monarch GRX-LGW service was always popular with good load factors until Ryan bullied their way in and stole all the subsidies. Because Granada told Ryan 'no way' at contract renewal time they have gone (no great loss) and consequently GRX has no direct flights to the UK.
Yes we have Malaga but even with the new terminal it's still a cattlemarket, parking is a nightmare and the drive from Jaen takes as long as the flight from Southampton!
I am sure that if Flybe did a customer survey on its Malaga flights they would find that at least 50% of the pax were headed inland. They could also try GRX as a Ski holiday resort for the period when SOU-AGP operate during January. Just a thought...