Flybe, one of the UK's leading low fares carriers, has axed one of its newly launched services in the face of continuously rising prices of fuel.
The services on the route between Glasgow Airport and Newquay in Cornwall, which were started in the month of April, will be stopped on the 2nd of August. It can be clearly seen that rising costs of fuel are having devastating effects on routes that are not having too much of traffic. Airlines are being forced to axe the routes that they feel do not have any margin of profit and are difficult to keep running.
The Exeter International airport-based carrier-the largest regional budget airline in Europe-said that it had not been flying enough travellers to generate revenue during the current situation when aviation fuel costs were at record high levels.
The carrier hopes to re-launch its services on the route if the price of fuel eases and returns to a normal level. This is the general anticipation of all the airlines that are downing the flights on various routes that once the fuel prices come low, they would be able to re-launch the flights.
A spokesman for the budget carrier said, "Flybe have no option but to suspend the Newquay - Glasgow service until such time as fuel prices return to more normal levels.
Impacted by the inexorable rise in the price of fuel, the route has proved to be one of Flybe's most marginal new summer ones".
