Originally Posted by
A320.b744
Your average booked seats quote is redundant because other domestic services have 5, 6, 7 daily flights with easyJet, generally with direct competition in the form of several daily flights as well. Below are the weekly easyJet flights from IOM.
LPL 7 weekly
LGW 13 weekly
LTN 3 weekly
BRS 2 weekly
These frequencies do not serve the island well, especially given that most of the flights are during the late afternoon. easyJet's aircraft are too big for proper domestic services from the IOM. Ideally you'd want 3-4 daily to LGW, double daily to LPL and at least daily to LTN and BRS.
easyJet's scheduling proves that their aircraft are ill-equipped for IOM operations. The fact that services to all other destinations are served by either 70 seat aircraft, or 30 seat aircraft is testament that the IOM market is small. BA Cityflyer even lease a smaller plane in order to operate LCY-IOM flights because their 80 seaters are too big for the market.
Flybe operate 4 times a day to LPL too.