Wonderful release for 1:500 collectors. I wonder when are we going to see a new Ryanair model being released!!!
While JCWings Is a surprise with the two easyJet models, Aether has demonstrated that it can compete with Herpa and even surpass it in terms of marketing and model quality. However, Herpa has been on the market for over 30 years and has left behind excellent competitors such as Big Bird, Netmodels, Aero500, Starjets, Inglight500 and Sky500—competitors that had lower costs and did not follow licensing rules. If it wants to continue to compete with Herpa, it must maintain extremely high quality standards (and this is not very difficult given the shameful quality control and the shameful lack of details on the fuselage of Herpa models) and raise the bar for the type of airlines and models it produces. Airlines like Ryanair, easyJet, Wizzair, Volotea, Jet2holidays in Europe and Southwest in the USA are not just a wishlist but a necessity for the various scales of collecting and for a simple fact: if we look at Flightradar24, for example, we see that the European skies are dominated by low-cost airlines (Ryanair, easyJet, Wizzair, Volotea), leisure airlines like Jet2.com/Jet2holidays, TUI Group, Eurowings, Condor etc., legacy airlines like all the former flag carriers (but Herpa already produces them!). A large slice of the market, namely low-cost and leisure/charter airlines, are almost completely missing in 1:500 scale and are in great demand so in my opinion Aether should focus above all on those. About European legacy airlines the market is saturated with British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France, Iberia, Tap, etc., although some models have yet to be produced, so competitors have to focus on airlines that Herpa has forgotten about, such as Finnair, Brussels Airlines, Austrian Airlines and so on
