I used to fly out of Manchester when the airport ran its free shuttle service to Anderson (Woburn) and Sullivan Square stations. At the time, for various competitive reasons, ticket prices from Manchester were sometimes cheaper than either Logan or T. F. Green in Providence.
Then Flight Line took over the route and started charging a fare that basically negated any difference in ticket price. Around the same time, again for various competitive reasons, ticket prices from Manchester stopped being a better deal as much of the time.
I stopped flying out of Manchester.
Beauvais–Tillé does have a price advantage, sometimes, but. The "but" is that it is served (I think entirely) by low-fare airlines, led by Ryanair. I think Ryanair serves Beauvais–Tillé as its only "Paris" airport. In my experience low-fare airlines fail badly. That is, if everything goes well, which it does for me most of the time, the trip is fine. If it doesn't, however, you are screwed and it is your problem, not the airline's.
The network airlines have dropped some fares to compete with Ryanair, but because Beauvais–Tillé is so far out of the way--it really is about the same distance to Paris as Manchester is to Boston, and the bus takes almost the same amount of time, though it is much cheaper than Flight Line--Air France doesn't have to lower its fares as much to keep people flying into Charles de Gaulle and Orly rather than Beauvais–Tillé.
If there's a good enough fare into Beauvais–Tillé and I'm not trying to connect out and I have no plans that won't survive a cancellation, I'm willing to fly into and out of there, but that's a lot of "and"s.
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Date: 2014-04-28 02:16 pm (UTC)Then Flight Line took over the route and started charging a fare that basically negated any difference in ticket price. Around the same time, again for various competitive reasons, ticket prices from Manchester stopped being a better deal as much of the time.
I stopped flying out of Manchester.
Beauvais–Tillé does have a price advantage, sometimes, but. The "but" is that it is served (I think entirely) by low-fare airlines, led by Ryanair. I think Ryanair serves Beauvais–Tillé as its only "Paris" airport. In my experience low-fare airlines fail badly. That is, if everything goes well, which it does for me most of the time, the trip is fine. If it doesn't, however, you are screwed and it is your problem, not the airline's.
The network airlines have dropped some fares to compete with Ryanair, but because Beauvais–Tillé is so far out of the way--it really is about the same distance to Paris as Manchester is to Boston, and the bus takes almost the same amount of time, though it is much cheaper than Flight Line--Air France doesn't have to lower its fares as much to keep people flying into Charles de Gaulle and Orly rather than Beauvais–Tillé.
If there's a good enough fare into Beauvais–Tillé and I'm not trying to connect out and I have no plans that won't survive a cancellation, I'm willing to fly into and out of there, but that's a lot of "and"s.