EI-BUD - I am slightly confused where you get a daily average of 160 passengers? Flybe themselves quote just under 100.000 during 2012 which is nowhere even remotely close to that.
Hi Groundhog,
I stand corrected, my source is the CAA website and monthly stats for September, which show total passenger traffic on the route was 8110, down 6% on the same month last year. This is for total passengers flown in both directions, so a total of 135 per day each way and not 160 as previously advised.
I like your idea of free train fares on the route. Not that it impacts me. That suggestion is something like Mary Portas got put into place between Margate and London in an attempt to put life into the town centre ... On a slightly different note.