Originally Posted by
NYTA
I think it's just poorly managed, but not such a bad idea. I have flown TLV-MRS twice in the last year but found that they could have done a better job on scheduling - i.e. scheduling the flights to MRS in a way that you can properly connect to other places without having to overnight at MRS. I'd even be willing to say that if they put on another TLV-MRS flight leaving MRS late at night that they could fill it, if they put connecting traffic through.
The bases de province model is very clearly point-to-point. If they started to mess about turning them into mini-hubs, it would create a level of complication which is against what the model seeks to achieve. It may or may not have been successful (out of MRS - or should I say base to Provence
- it seems to me that fares are often very low, suggesting that they struggle to fill them at higher yields and they closed quite a few of the initial routes but this is, admittedly, purely anecdotal) but it is a coherent model, at least, if you take it in isolation of the rest.*
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:San Gottardo and others have rightly pointed out the lack of a clear coherent strategy overall so I will not go over that again.