You've answered your own question Phileas, via Newquay. Passengers didn't want a 15minute flight plus 15minutes on the ground before even heading towards Gatwick.
Besides, Plymouth only had a number of allocated seats, the other alocations where PAX from Newquay to Gatwick and PAX from Gatwick to Newquay that where already on the aircraft at Plymouth. This left about 20 seats for Plymouth. There have been dozens of reports where people couldn't book because of a lack of seats across their entire network due to this arrangement.
Last edited by PlymouthPixie; 26th Sep 2012 at 08:25.