Anyone who has dealt with Stobarts before will know that they make decisions without thinking them through first, somebody has an idea and the management go full steam ahead and then when it doesn't work they try something else off the cuff. They seem to have had the mindset that if we build it they will come which sadly has not happened and looking unlikely it ever will.
These 18 new routes sounds a bit ambitious as they don't have enough or the right equipment to allow them to offer good routes due to the ATR.
I fear they will try a few routes here and there and in the end nothing really will come of it, they will just keep going in circles hoping that a route turns out profitable.