Shamrock – why would they reduce routes to help them beat delays?
This is just a phase they are going through at MAN as no doubt one of their based aircraft has a ticky engine or something like that, that keeps causing trouble and needs sorting on a regular basis therefore causing delays.
Remember for every say 4/6 routes out of one airport operatings on a 3/4 times a week service this can be run by 1 aircraft and the reason they stagger the schedule is to allow for this one aircraft to run lots of return journeys maximising its effiency as its costs to have it resting on the ground anywhere it goes.
I think Shamrock was suggesting that BMIBaby reduce their no. of operating bases not routes. It’s logical that fewer bases could then possibly support more routes and hence more a/c at each base. If one a/c goes tech then a replacement a/c should be available sooner.(As opposed to waiting for one to position in from another airport). A good example being Jet2..they have 6-7 a/c based at LBA. I bet their knock-on delays are far less than BMIBaby. Anyone know by chance?
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