Perhaps EI's arrival will be the wake up call Flybe need and deserve. A look any day at BHD's arrivals/departures board and it is peppered with long delays and cancellations due to Q400 tech issues. Also why did Flybe unceremoniously ditch BRS recently with no apparent reason given. This route was one of their longest established ex BHD and had steady if not exceptional loads.
Mr Ambrose is bound to be fed up with Flybe's performance and he is quite entitled to bring in another competitor. Hopefully, regional will also appear and start BRS and other routes in competition with Flybe - the ATRs might not be ultra reliable but couldn't be any worse than those Q400s.
Last edited by ALLMCC; 20th Jul 2012 at 11:30.