Originally Posted by
BAladdy
At IAG's last Capital Markets Day back in November, the boss of VY stated that there are some markets that VY want to expand in so they will set up a route they will operate it for a certain period of time. If after that period of time they route fails to be profitable it will be discontinued. Think that's what happened with the routes dropped by VY across the network in recent days.
That's pretty well what all the so-called lo-co carriers do, which is why FlyBe find themselves lambasted for opening a route, then closing it at short notice.
The days of giving a route 2 years to develop are long gone.