Originally Posted by
tws123
All I'm trying to say is that I'm a bit concerned that LCY is a bad choice for an airline that has just undergone a major job and route restructuring in an attempt to balance the books (that's not to say that they couldn't go there in the future).
I think you may be comparing two different things. Yes, LCY is very expensive, but the airlines who serve LCY do so not because they don't pay attention to their costs but because they can get a much higher yield from LCY than from any other available London airport.
If flybe reckon that they can attract enough business travellers to LCY to compensate for the higher airport charges, that's what's needed.
As various airline gurus have pointed out over the years, it's not just about low costs, it's about having costs sustainably below your revenues. High LCY costs don't automatically mean flyBe would lose money there.
If all the rest of the flybe operation has had costs stripped out, it will be very competitive compared to other LCY players.