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Old 12th Nov 2013, 09:48
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davidjohnson6
 
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Assuming the 7 routes that don't cover DOCs are the Gatwick routes, would these have been profitable had GIP not significantly raised airport charges at Gatwick ?
As far as I can remember, Flybe's response was to appeal to the CAA to try to get the charges set to something more affordable in the hope of retaining a London operation as so much money is in London. When Flybe realised the CAA wasn't going to intervene, they sold the slots to Easyjet as soon as possible.

Slightly disingeneous for Saad Hamaad to explicitly flag up the 7 routes which he knows will cease in a few months and are still operated only because of a use-it-or-lose-it rule on slots at Gatwick, and furthermore he knows that there's very little he can do about the 7 routes which hasn't been done already
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