Onyx - please try to focus your thoughts on the population size of the Outer Hebrides - Stornoway has 9,000 people and the island group as a whole has a population of 26,000 - the island group has a population of no more than a small UK town. It already has direct flights to Edinburgh and Glasgow with all the associated onward connections.
Non stop flights from the Scottish islands to the Mediterranean really are very small markets.
A weekly flight on a 737-800 needs at least 150 people each week or over 5,000 people travelling each way over a summer season on each specific route to have a hope in hell of profitability - Stornoway cannot possibly provide that level of traffic given its population.
SSK - I don't know much about Molde but Harstad-Narvik airport seems to be the primary airport in a region with a local catchment of over 100,000 people, over 4 times that of Stornoway airport
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 6th August 2013 at 09:39.