Start your own airline...
Just got back from Kenya. Very impressed with the Cessna Grand Caravan (thks to East African Air Charters) and the Flamingo Airways low-cost operation (part of Kenya Airways).
Would something like this be viable in the UK flying out of small-ish strips? Book over the web. Compete with the trains. There's big demand for Cornwall and Devon judging how busy they are.
Maybe web-based ticket would get round the problem at Biggin? It would be a great hub. Or a grass strip like Redhill?
How difficult is it be to get something like this off the ground? Being a beancounter in the real world I can knock up business plans and organise funding...but CAA approval, etc?
Any takers to assist with an initial appraisal document.
...or should I stick to dodgying numbers.