Is Timmy bleating here? he has been given short shrift on the Flybe thread.

We don't yet know what is being cut. Flybe have said that they will still be serving DSA using Dash aircraft, presumably on W patterns. It's hard to imagine them doing the longer Spain/Portugal flights, but hopefully we will keep Dublin, Amsterdam, Belfast and Paris in some form.

As someone who lives only 25 miles away from DSA, I would love to use the airport for all my flights. However, the only airline that flies anywhere of interest to me, is TUI, but at silly prices compared to flights with Jet2 from BHX or LBA. Not sure how DSA can be blamed for not delivering the passenger throughput if the airline itself is offering uncompetitive fares to pax that would love to use their local airport.

easyJet have been and gone, can't see any reason they'd be back. The airport need a slice of the Jet2 cake, though that may be extremely hard to achieve, but who knows.

DTVA were delivering the pax though, and I don't buy into the lack of yield argument either

Good morning Pug,
My point is that the this is the greatest opportunity that the airport can wish for now, they've explored so many avenues already, easyJet, Ryanair etc.
The topic is wasn't about Jet2.
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Jet2 have significant market power particularly in the family and packaged holiday market, if DSA want a big slice of the cake in the region, Jet2 could bring it. I wouldn't speculate on the commercials or such things as cost duplication. We don't always see the cost benefit analysis and many airlines operate from neighbouring airports with commercial justification, let me give you some examples;

Ryanair - bases at PIK, GLA and EDI
Jet2 - bases at LBA, MAN
Jet2 - bases at BHX, EMA
easyJet - bases at LTN, STN, SEN

I agree that the region is incredibly competitive from an airport perspective, but airline do and can often justify having bases close together and there is nothing to say that Jet2 however unlikely it may be, couldn't split their operation between LBA and DSA, without duplication of services. Afterall, reading the history on the threads for DSA, the belief seems to be that DSA could prove an excellent alternstive to LBA. Indeed there was a group of posters proposing a new alternstive airport for Leeds at one point. I wonder what commercial rationale that stood behind that.

Play nice people ...
EI-BUD

With respect Easyjet left at a totally different time at DSA, it was located in the back of beyond , hard to get to .and this certainly stifled it's potential.
There was very little freight and it seemed a lack of interest from management.

Now it is well connected directly to several motorways ( via M18 ), EG , M1 , A1(M) , M62 etc.
Cargo is going through the roof , this change with Flybe had NOTHING to do with a bad airport , it was EVERY airport , an Airline consolidating back to its core and best known business -short - medium sectors on Dash8 aircraft.

And IS continuing , further investment is being made by the airport team and will be going ahead shortly with , a major refresh and fair sized Terminal expansion , also into previously an unused ( mothballed) part of the Terminal .

During one debate here or elsewhere some link to an alleged comment by a potential Airline , stating these changes were expected if expansion was to occur .

TUI pulled from both EMA and LBA' , and even on this forum , was an EMA post about DSA ' poaching custom now, and are up to , Three based 737, ( TUI ) , plus one visiting weekly longhaul 787 this year , and much more next year as Cancun , has been added .

To sum up the airport is a very different prospect now, since ' easyJet ( 9 years ago !! ) , The airport year on year wins awards as best airport .
So you cannot compare, and equate why easyJet are not coming

Nobody knows for sure, also on these very pages people said , exactly the same of Flybe " won't ever open a base , it will dilute surrounding airports" .
And that was proven wrong .
Noone knows the future, you cannot say for sure who will open routes .
But eventually they will come .
Who and when , you'll just have to wait and see!.

All sounds quite positive.

https://www.doncasterlocalonline.co....X67rw9Xn8gIVh8

Any truth to the rumour that both DSA and LPL have been put up for sale today??

Not sure. Although it wouldn't be a bad thing. Peel have very little care in airport passenger operations. It would be good to see new energy behind the running of these two airports from an organisation with more passion and/or experience.

Lets hope Stobart doesn't buy them or it will be groundhog day for Durham Tees Valley.

Where have you heard this?

New owner of DTVA told a local village at a meeting about the airport

Wouldn't trust that source ,going on his email
I got where he promised on 1 million plus pax at DTVA

Flybe timetable starting to yield information on the winter schedule. AMS (daily) and BHD (4 X weekly) match last winters frequencies utilizing BHD and BHX props. So far so good.

Where were you able to find that?