They could have made quite a packet by upping sticks at Gatwick and selling
their slots, and then had a monopoly at SEN. Oh for the missed
opportunities...
In principle this sounds fine but consider each Flybe LGW route, I dont see many of them stacking up from SEN.
E.g. BHD - never achieve 20k pax per month
JER ?? Wasnt and isnt breaking delph so if you think it is a direct transfer to SEN you would be mistaken, the competition would fill some of the void.
Elsewhere, Flybe increasingly looking to interlining for pax, not available ex SEN
Flybe not well know around Europe in the way EZY is. EZY is best placed of all airlines to make a sucess of SEN.
Flybe not cheap, so from a route development point of view, dont see them as being particularly ideal.
However, nothing to still stop them coming into SEN and doing short routes domestically or near Europe with 175 or 400s. Easyjet may have 3 aircraft but they have in essence at this point a handful of routes, more than ample room for BE to fit in. Besides I cant imagine if BE had set up a base at SEN that they would have went after half of the routes that EZY have. Maybe AMS but not Belfast or any of the longer holiday routes.
EI-BUD