'If' and that's a rather massive 'if' that Flybe get involved, I hope they see sense and decide against sticking the Dash 8s on a Dublin route and go for the Embraer. Put some bloody competition up to the Cityjet and BA Flyer strangle hold grip those boys are running outta city to Dublin.
If they plan the schedule properly and cheap seat fares than the cityjet or BA seat outta City to Dublin, they will clean up on that route.
18:30 or 19:00 rush hour commuter flight from London to Dublin allows enough time for pax to travel out from London Liverpool St station.
Combination of rail fare plus Flybe seat fare plus TIME taken to get to SEN needs to be attractive to persuade pax to shift from City airport.
These are pax who prefer to avoid the Ryanair experiences of standing queuing in priority then ushered though boarding only to queue in holding area stairwells, to then only be ushered out to base of aircraft steps to queue further until some minutes later being ushered onto the bloody aircraft. It's terrible! Oh, and have you seen what can only be described as pure chaos and car crash security queue delays at Stansted - try that experience for a laugh, it's not pleasant.
With London Bridge station all over the place the rail service to Gatwick is unreliable at the moment so pax hoping for Aer Lingus from Gatwick to Dublin is a real mission.
Heathrow? You're having a laugh, right!
Leaves City, and Cityjet have had a lot of service problems of late, such as aircraft being 'delayed' at Dublin so has knock on for the inbound to City. They tell you no further info other than it was delayed. No why or explanations. It's happened to me regularly now over past couple of months. Unreliable.
BA CityFlyer is very expensive from City to Dublin, so there is definite room for Flybe to competitively challenge BA on that route with a Embraer service from SEN to Dublin but needs clever scheduling and a price point which competes aggressively.
Fri 18:30/19:00
Sat 09:00
Inbound Sun arrival slots for 18:30/19:00
They'd go head to head with the LCY schedules, get a price war going!
Win, win for Flybe, for SEN, for pax, for SEN surrounding economy. Sometimes you need to 'buy in' the business in order to establish a solid foundation for future successful growth and future broadened expansion. I firmly believe SEN needs some lateral fresh thinking, they need some special secret sauce but once they stumble upon it they need to not flup it up AGAIN!