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According to their social media, no further routes to come for DSA this winter.
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It's easy to fill and aircraft and still not make money. Flybe will have tried to encourage people to pay more at DSA but if the only way they can fill the aircraft is to drop the price, there isn't much more they can do. They're a business that very nearly didn't make it so can't be sentimental about things.
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It's easy to fill and aircraft and still not make money. Flybe will have tried to encourage people to pay more at DSA but if the only way they can fill the aircraft is to drop the price, there isn't much more they can do. They're a business that very nearly didn't make it so can't be sentimental about things.
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The whole Flybe model is flawed. They can't make money even on high fares - everyone knows that. It's in their books. Their average fare is ludicrous when compared with easyJet or Ryanair. In order for them to make money they need to INCREASE fares even more. This is not possible in todays market.
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Well after calling Flybe , they told me , that other routes are still to be loaded .
Obviously Newquay won't be back when you have a daily flight or more from LBA.
But they should have or hopefully keep Paris and Dublin , and perhaps add LCY.
The latter could have extra flights on a Friday and Sunday so people looking for a City Break , in the Capital can either fly after work on a Friday so a later outbound from DSA might be popular.
Yes some will argue the train is faster but Lcy has a lot of onward destinations, that are not even served from MAN. so in theory that route should be a good sell.
The only other couple of Airlines , one of which openly said it wanted to expand in Northern England ( Loganair) , and Stobart could both run those lost routes , Loganair even have ER4 aircraft .
But the one good thing out of all this , is keeping Amsterdam that's a very Key route , unless KLM came along .
Obviously Newquay won't be back when you have a daily flight or more from LBA.
But they should have or hopefully keep Paris and Dublin , and perhaps add LCY.
The latter could have extra flights on a Friday and Sunday so people looking for a City Break , in the Capital can either fly after work on a Friday so a later outbound from DSA might be popular.
Yes some will argue the train is faster but Lcy has a lot of onward destinations, that are not even served from MAN. so in theory that route should be a good sell.
The only other couple of Airlines , one of which openly said it wanted to expand in Northern England ( Loganair) , and Stobart could both run those lost routes , Loganair even have ER4 aircraft .
But the one good thing out of all this , is keeping Amsterdam that's a very Key route , unless KLM came along .
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The problem is that the general public seem prepared to pay the taxi driver that takes them 10 miles to their local airport the same as the airline flying them halfway across Europe. I'm not saying it's wrong, its great for the travelling public but that airliner costs many times more than that taxi does to run.
You wouldn't walk into your local corner shop and expect to pay Tesco prices so if enough of the travelling public aren't prepared to pay more in big enough volumes for the convenience of flying from DSA then unfortunately, the routes aren't sustainable. Flybe have given it a good try but I guess they have to make difficult decisions to save the business.
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Ignoring Timmy who is always full of doom and not always accurate, I do hope that Dublin survives. It's always a reasonably busy service, especially in it's winter configuration. Our local papers don't know there backside from their elbow so no issue there....
LCY though.. that/s not happening....
LCY though.. that/s not happening....
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The route that i can see returning with Flybe is Jersey,. Though i wouldn't expect that to be until the summer schedule release.
For all other routes, DSA needs a new LCC based in the form of either W9 or FR. W9 would be absolutely crazy to give up an opportunity like this - having no competition aside from the TUI package routes. DSA already has a close relationship with W6, so i'd hope W9 would be the natural choice for future expansion... I just wonder how long we'll have to wait and see? Without starting to see a decline again, we'd need to see replacement routes on sale by September / October in readiness for a summer 20 schedule.
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There's no way WIzz will start picking up dropped bucket and spade routes. It doesn't fit their business model.
The routes dropped by Flybe will go unfilled for the foreseeable future.
The routes dropped by Flybe will go unfilled for the foreseeable future.
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I'm sure DUB will return again at some point. Realistically though, i'd only imagine with either Ryanair or Aer Lingus.
The route that i can see returning with Flybe is Jersey,. Though i wouldn't expect that to be until the summer schedule release.
For all other routes, DSA needs a new LCC based in the form of either W9 or FR. W9 would be absolutely crazy to give up an opportunity like this - having no competition aside from the TUI package routes. DSA already has a close relationship with W6, so i'd hope W9 would be the natural choice for future expansion... I just wonder how long we'll have to wait and see? Without starting to see a decline again, we'd need to see replacement routes on sale by September / October in readiness for a summer 20 schedule.
The route that i can see returning with Flybe is Jersey,. Though i wouldn't expect that to be until the summer schedule release.
For all other routes, DSA needs a new LCC based in the form of either W9 or FR. W9 would be absolutely crazy to give up an opportunity like this - having no competition aside from the TUI package routes. DSA already has a close relationship with W6, so i'd hope W9 would be the natural choice for future expansion... I just wonder how long we'll have to wait and see? Without starting to see a decline again, we'd need to see replacement routes on sale by September / October in readiness for a summer 20 schedule.
