Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
Ryanair tried Ostend about 10 years ago.
From MAN + EDI, Ryanair already fly to Charleroi. Would Ostend be significantly easier to reach from Brussels in comparison ?
Eurostar has scooped up much of the Belgian provincial demand by an arrangement with the Belgian railways that a Eurostar ticket from London to Brussels also allows free connections to/from anywhere else in Belgium. It's a small country and most places have frequent trains taking only an hour, or little more, from Brussels main station. I understand it's quite widely used.
Because this has taken so much of the potential demand, especially from the Belgian end, it really impacts the likely air service demand at other Belgian points.