Caucasus - the last European LCC frontier?
Looking at prices of bmi's flights to the Caucasus cities, they are absolutely outrageous!
LHR- GYD in April comes up at nearly £900 & £700 odd for EVN. Only TBS gets more reasonable at just below £400, and that must be because that is a continuation from the GYD flight, so they can't price-gouge so much for being 'direct' (or at least non-stop).
Now my gut reaction is - niche market, Baku is all about the oil, not much population, not much spare cash for tourism, not especially stable, esp Georgia.
So is there an opportunity for the LCCs? They seem to have pretty much the rest of Europe sown up, looking at the perspective of routes from the UK.
Very few places they don't go between them - ok, Easy have never made much of the Scandis, presumably because Norwegian have a similar service offering & airport usage policy. Ryanair have been late into Greece, but apart from that, they've done pretty much everywhere that's in Openskies - Luxembourg no doubt too expensive, ditto for CH.
Russia is unserved from the UK, but quite a few options from Germany etc.
Wizzair have pioneered the Balkans, so would they have looked at the Caucasus?