"Recliner" wrote in message
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tim... wrote:

"Recliner" wrote in message
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Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:45:17 on Wed, 28
Sep 2016, Neil Williams remarked:

I'm no sure which part of their costs you think were significantly
higher - they had one of the oldest fleets in the air, and the other
two one of the newest. That must impact the cost.

The easyJet and Ryanair argument is that good deals on new planes are
actually cheaper to operate overall - highly reliable, for example.

So BMIbaby's problem was an incompetent fleet purchasing department?

No. The problem was a lack of strategy.

surely their biggest problem was focussing on flying from airports that
almost nobody found convenient to fly from (or to)

That sounds more like Ryanair, which seems to thrive regardless.


The problem with BMIB was that they only flew from one region of the country
(the midlands) [1] which presumably wasn't a big enough catchment for the
quantity/type of flights that they offered.

Not that the individual airports were inconvenient (though for PT access,
one of them was)

[1] that's all Wikipedia will admit to, did they fly (to Europe) from
elsewhere?

tim