I would suggest that Mon can transform into anything it wants to in the current situation, and can easily compete even more successfully with easy than it does now, with lower crew costs than easy if required.
You say that market share can be acquired at regional? airports (i.e. at MAN, LGW, LTN and BHX in Mon's case) without the complications of a takeover but exactly how is that achieved with the competitor still there and without a price war that will cost?
As I say easy might rue the day it didn't take the opportunity. Of course if easy's policy is simply to be "grown up" and to consolidate then there is even more chance the Mon turnaround will succeed I suppose? I see that easy still has the same 200 aircraft it had three years ago so maybe the "consolidation" view is correct?
You pays your money and takes your choice ....
Last edited by Rushed Approach; 24th Aug 2014 at 19:42.