Regardless of the Daily Echo report the other day, what is crystal clear is that Bournemouth needs an airline that is willing to fly schedules and support the airport all year round. This nonsense with Ryanair surely can't be allowed to continue as it's costing the airport very dearly!
With around 600,000 passengers now flying from the airport, a regular service by a carrier that is prepared to actually base two 737s / A320s is the way forward. Not a charter airline but a scheduled carrier flying to a dozen or so routes. In the summer, twice a day to the Med, with maybe a night flight over the busy weekends and in the winter ski destinations as well as the Canaries which would be year round. The current domestic routes are about as good as it's going to get! Let's not forget that many airlines have tried and failed again and again and again over the years, and of course you only need to drive for 30 minutes to Southampton for those services.
For this to happen MAG must get rid of Ryanair and break this very unsatisfactory relationship. Five months without a service really is taking the mickey! The biggest problem of all appears to be that while Ryanair are there other carriers won't even consider coming to Bournemouth!
If Bath Travel could be persuaded to come back and tie up with a company such as Monarch for example and persuade them to base two A320s then I see no reason at all why this shouldn't be a long term happy relationship. It's about time that normal service was resumed! Who are actually promoting Bournemouth? A team in Manchester or are MAG based in Bournemouth supporting the local community? Well other than Ryanair, it hasn't gone too well has it! Ask them about Palmair?
Ryanair have got to go along with that extremely stupid drop off / pick up fee!
Last edited by mrshubigbus; 6th Nov 2012 at 19:04.