Cos it worked so well last time?

Ha! But potentially more pickings than Leeds - LHR was ever going to have and they're going up against BA and others on LHR - BHD and AMS so I thought it might have been considered.

SOU
 

With future expansion and with the prospect of Flybe opening up a Southampton base could we possibly see a few more routes announced for summer 2023.

Possible destinations from Southampton alongside there existing services could be to,

​​​​​Jersey
La Rochelle
​​​​​​LeedsNantes
Rennes
Paris CDG

It's just a suggestion obviously.

Dont forget Bergerac. SOU-EGC was their most profitable international route.

Don’t BA already operate that several times a week?

BA do indeed fly from Southampton to Bergerac several times a week. But then again Loganair fly multiple times a day between Edinburgh and Glasgow to Southampton. That didn't stop Flybe announcing those two routes in their latest route announcements.

I have to admit that I had totally overlooked Bergerac in my list.

With regards to Southampton to Paris CDG, I much prefer Air France to resume the route rather than Flybe.

Not really. They do a LCY-EGC-SOU on a Saturday, sometimes another SOU-EGC after that, then reverse on a Sunday and only in the summer. Occasionally Tuesdays too but only school summer hols.
The Saturday flight has been cancelled a lot this summer.

Flybe operated the route daily May-Oct and then 2,3 or 5 times a week the rest of the year.

This shows how profitable the route was but it’s a repost as I copied it from the old thread.

https://www.anna.aero/2020/10/23/fly...till-unserved/

So which is right - anna.aero's most profitable routes or Flybe2 have all Flybe1's data? :suspect:

You've got to wonder about that data. It says Birmingham-Milan was one of the most profitable routes in 2019 but in the same breath, that Flybe discontinued services on it in October 2019. Now I think we all could say that Flybe 1 did some crazy things and some might say Flybe 2 isn't far behind.... But closing a highly profitable route (if that data is correct) is quite strange.

The other thing that the data doesn't account for is the Air France blocked space agreements on CDG flights and the tour operator block space on routes like SOU-VRN. The remaining seats on sale via Flybe.com of old were generally at much higher fares than the "wholesale" prices and so if you take the CAA pax figures and apply the high price at which only a small proportion of seats were sold, you can get some skewed answers from this data. Flybe 1's internal accounting and reporting was so poor that it's quite possible Flybe 2 will fall into the same trap though!

Wishful thinking. Flybe went bust, Loganair and several others moved in to take the bits of Flybe’s network that were worthwhile.
Claiming that this has only been done to stop a start up airline is a bit wide of the mark.

Literally no evidence that Loganair are not interested in the routes. Indeed they have stuck at them longer than Flybe did with its Leeds-LHR service.

Still waiting for the acknowledgment about Loganair operating IOM-LHR with ATRs despite you repeatedly “correcting” people as well.

It's just a daft comment. Flying several dozen flights a day on the former Flybe routes is an odd way of showing a lack of interest. I'd be more concerned if they were gobbling up unprofitable bits of Flybe's old network, that would be a really stupid thing to do!

Airlines are only ever (or should be only ever) interested in routes which make money. I don't know what more interest an airline would need to show? Any airline which runs an unprofitable route because they're interested in operating between City A and City B or only for sentimental reasons won't be around for long.

Hang on a minute ( as I just wipe up the coffee I’ve just spat out) that’s a bit rich coming from you given your recent posting history!! Pot, kettle springs to mind. Take some of your own advice maybe eh?

'Interest' in a route can mean that the airline puts effort into developing the route, for example through advertising and working with tourist and council authorities at each end in order to develop traffic. Essentially all new routes have to start out like this but once an airline has shown interest and developed it then others can move in and take advantage of their work.

The opposite would be, as an example, Ryanair's routes from Belfast that it only seemingly operates when it has some spare airframes and receives promotional airport rates. Opportunistic rather than strategic.

The article dates back to March 2020. Post pandemic I would suggest the market has changed somewhat.
I am sure there would still be demand on many of those routes but the passenger estimates would need revisiting.