Silvercity
Well-Known Member
Yes it's deeply frustrating especially as you say it appears to perform well from Liverpool.
All airports and airlines seem to carry out these route questionnaires asking people where they want to fly to next. You'd think they'd be able to work it out for themselves. People tend to always pick places like New York but in reality how many people actually go there? As an example the business community of Bristol said they needed a New York service but when Bristol Airport scooped Continental Airlines they were eventually given a "use it or lose it" ultimatum. Not too long after, the route ceased.
A general rule I have is if a route can support say two airlines from Manchester, a neighbouring airport should be able to support one as well. If only one airline is serving a route from Manchester, the chances are it wont work from one of the surrounding airports. This isn't a strict rule as there are other factors you need to consider. If one airline is carrying over 200,000 passengers annually from Manchester then obviously one of the surrounding airports has a case to claw back some of their lost passengers. The aviation industry is a dog eat dog business it's an uphill struggle for the smaller airports.
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I believe the aircraft used on LPL-LiS is a Lisbon based machine, so I'm thinking that's going somewhere else, who knows . Perhaps a the route will reappear for 2019 , its long established so I imagine the airport management will be keen to see it reinstated asap