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And they'd also have to find airports, which are usually busier and perhaps more commercially aware, at the other end willing to humour the kind of routes they specialised in operating. A few years ago an airport like Edinburgh might have been interested in someone operating flights to Humberside or Norwich with 6 passengers each in the morning peak. Nowadays they might think they can find something more remunerative...
If Eastern wanted to operate from Edinburgh, could Edinburgh stop them? Last time I was there it was pretty busy but I'm sure they could accommodate a few Jetstreams per day. Not a rhetorical question, I'm an interested observer so not sure how these things work...