Originally Posted by
Fly_bill
In my opinion don't think any of above routes are viable and the fact no airline has come in on them probably proves the point (aer lingus and city jet butch tried CDG and failed miserably )- Shannon has plenty of bucket and spade routes and practically connected to every available sun spot in Spain - the fact nice And Poitiers have been pulled prob tells ya they have maybe too much sun choice - with knock and cork also well served with sun capacity and Dublin heaving with same there's a finite market for these type of routes and ryanairs reduction in capacity fr Both knock Shannon and cork in this regard obviously tells a tale!!
CityJet were FR'd off the route by twice daily SNN BVA services and the recession. The E145 didn't allow for viable low fares - and the ARJ was too big against the pool of cheap fares to BVA and the return of Heathrow.