Originally Posted by
mrshubigbus
This sums up what many of us have been saying all along - MAG and Ryanair have been "destroying Bournemouth"! Confirmed beyond any shadow of doubt by the Boss of Palmair who had been successfully operating flights at Bournemouth Airport since the 1960s!!! Anyone care to refute that??? So Sir Peter Rigby buys the airport, does what everyone hopes he'll do and kicks Ryanair out and joins forces with Stephen Bath to relaunch Palmair with a couple of European 737s (there are plenty to choose from over the North side!) At the same time a couple of smaller commuter sized aircraft - Dornier 328s maybe - looked after by JETS (who service D328s) flying regular services to the Channel Islands. All could come under the same Palmair umbrella. Stephen Bath uses a new office at the airport and sees his passengers off - back to the good old days!!! It's doable but Ryanair "have to go"!!! The only other fly in the ointment would have to be a deal with TUI so that they can use the Palmair aircraft and use their own 737 out of a major airport instead. It's a win win for everybody assuming that's what Peter Rigby want to buy the airport for! That's the big and currently unanswered question!
Stephen Bath and I claim my £5.00 . None of that would ever happen even under new ownership. Palmair never going to do £30 flights to Spain which is what FR do well.