As Im not familiar with DTV what routes does it offer?.
How frequent is the KLM operation?. Only if they only have KLM and a route to Aberdeen then those figures cant be that diabloical.
Going by the posts about how bad it is, It seems that two airlines using one Tiny prop and a small Ageing jet Bring in almost 100 000 passenger's a month.
Has there been an official reason for binning holiday flights , beyond the probable thinking that they are only any good seasonal and with the downturn they've had , A bucket and spade route isnt going to pull in the numbers?.
Does anyone have a link to the masterplan please?.
Also based on all this. KLM seem to be onto a good thing, What about Someone Like SAS to Copenhagen . Airfrance City jet Avros to Paris and LCY.
Maybe even BA?.
Bmi seem like one to aim for. Perhaps theres something to be said for a new better terminal.
And like Flybe said going bacl to its routes and original plan to serve regional airport to regional.
Scotland to England is so limited.
Inverness isnt Covered. Maybe Flybe might see Dtv as an opertunity to screw a fantastic deal out of.
Perhaps compete on The Ams slots.
And daft as this may sound but teeside with all its industy might a route to Sumburgh/Scatsa aimed at oilworkers etc.
Ive done that route from Lba Via Abz and its a pain. Perhaps An E170 into Sumburgh direct , Something nobody does now might work.
How about Stavanger. Belfast and Glasgow.
And Klm no Props any more leaves all these Fokker 70's looking like their not going to be around forever.
Anyway all that said im not an expert. Just have a keen interest in all this and would love a bit of debate woth you guys on which Carriers and Routes realistly would work.
Ps if Klm does pull out and I dont wish that on them. But Dsa in an email indicated they was working on a hub route imminently.
Would they go there?. Or increase HUY to a 737 and more rotations.
I hope Dtv succeeds after all we are talking about real peoples livelyhoods and job losses.
So perhaps we can try move this thread away from doom and gloom and back toward Ideas and so on to improve it. Perhaps even take them To Dtv Management.
Otherwise it seems like a self forfulling prophecy.