Originally Posted by
ajamieson
BAeuro without seeing the exact terms of the contract, it's impossible to make that judgement but I don't suppose anyone involved in the emergency PSO back in (when did Flybe go bust? Early March 2020?) foresaw we'd be here almost a year later not knowing from one day to the next whether travel is permitted the following day never mind future weeks or months. We're all about to be locked down even further, which is probably already shaping the current discussion around the next 'proper' PSO. Among the considerations: will there be any point in having a 'proper' PSO in H1/21 if travel, even essential/business travel, does not recover until after Easter when commercial flights are scheduled anyway? The current situation is a clusterfck so enormous that I don't think even the amateurs at Cornwall Council/airport can claim credit for it! As Rob says, the latest closure it is likely to be a mutual decision (and a sensible one in my view).
I completely get your point and I don’t blame BA or Cornwall Council. It just seems a tad ironic that they put out an ‘emergency tender’ to link Newquay to London but for a fair few months they weren’t linked.
Of course with the news of a lockdown coming tonight and the message being ‘Stay at Home’ I do understand why they reached this decision. My point was more around BA running it 2x weekly even when we weren’t in lockdown. It is hardly a key connection, but alas we are in a pandemic and I guess all parties know what’s best.