Quote: "Why would any business sell an asset that would then compete directly with itself for the same customer?"
It would do so only when required to by law (monopolies commission), e.g. LHR-LGW-STN and GLA-EDI, obviously not applicable in this case.
Quote: "Robin Hood DSA is not convenient really for Shefiield. DSA seems to be just charters and lots of Polish flights for all the polish community in the area. The airport/region in crying out for some schedules to Amsterdam or London, LGW or LCY, for connecting flights. DSA at the moment is doing little it seems to attract or cater for the business community. Its just holiday flights and migrant worker flights."
Maybe that's where SZD went wrong: no connections to London.
LHR rather than LGW for onward connections, but unachievable because LHR is full.
LCY for point to point city centre-city centre business flights would probably been the way forward. However both LHR and LCY are expensive airports and there may have been inadequate traffic for this to be viable.
Maybe it's the same situation at DSA?
Last edited by Fairdealfrank; 7th Feb 2013 at 17:20.