BA do not fly to Inverness. From April 2014 the only airline flying London-Inverness seems to be Easyjet. Thus anyone flying from the Hebrides, Orkney or Shetland wishing to go to London has to go via Glasgow / Edinburgh / Aberdeen and not Inverness. There are no flights from Inverness to the central belt airports.
This would likely weaken Loganair's Inverness base - although difficult to know by how much.
To add some numbers:r
In 2012, Inverness saw 594,288 scheduled terminal passengers
Loganair carried 57,263 passengers to a mix of the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland
Inverness saw 397,137 passengers on routes to/from London and Bristol - routes which will be solely Easyjet after March 2014
On the Inverness - Geneva / Jersey routes, the Saturday-only flight arrives into Inverness after all Loganair flights have departed, so is likely aimed solely at people in Inverness who want a holiday with little or no Loganair feed
Inverness saw 133,890 passengers on routes that Flybe will continue after March 2014 and which might see some sort of Loganair connection.
Thus, of the routes where a Loganair passenger at Inverness might connect to another flight, Easyjet will have 75% market share of possible connecting passengers.
If this connecting feed is important at Inverness, does it force Loganair to get friendly with Easyjet ?
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 23rd Jun 2013 at 18:59.