Just checked some CWL frequencies and the weekday timings to AMS are ridiculous. Once daily, CWL-AMS 19:00, AMS-CWL 21:50.That is useless for business pax and the leisure market isn’t that great on weekdays.

ALC- 7Xweekly
ORK- 8Xweekly
JER- 4Xweekly
NOC- 4Xweekly
LGW- 2Xdaily Monday-Friday, Once on Sunday
LHR (this wasn’t listed before, it’s operated by bmi)- 3Xdaily Mon-Fri & Sun, 2X Sat
AGP- 9Xweekly
NQY- 4Xweekly
PMI- 6Xweekly
CDG- 2Xdaily Mon,Wed,Fri, Sat & Sun, 1X Tuesday & Thursday

😮 No fair! If they’d operated that this year from CWL I could have gone over to see the Blues play in the heineken Cup! ah well. An interesting route indeed. Is this them serving Perp becuase they think it’s a good destination in it’s own right, or is this a cheaper option than flying to TLS?

Because BMI have been in business (in one form or another) since 1938 (Air Schools operating out of Burnaston), and are not a charity or a company to satisfy every reggie spotter’s wish list from obscure regional airports. They exist to make money…nuff said.

Yes but their routes from CWL do make money and lots of it- it’s not like CWL is a tiny part of their operation. As it stands next summer it will make up 17.6% of their total number of weekly flights, and most of those will be nearly full. It’s hardly small change is it.

Haven’t Air Southwest already got that covered?

Yes I just checked and they have. Well it could go one of either two ways: baby turns out the mean bully pushing AS out, or (and imo the most likely) people will stick with AS and baby will end up with egg on it’s face

It’s alrite for people who’ve got MAN or LHR as their locals, when theres new routes and a couple of million people a day, but if you’ve got CWL anything new is a rareity, and everytime we’ve been told something amazings going to happen it never does.