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Old 24th Jan 2018, 12:46
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owenc
 
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Originally Posted by SecondDog
That shows how little you understand about a lot of things though. Americans don't usually understand and/or care that there is a difference. They travel to Ireland (of which we are a part, both geographically and culturally) The next problem with that is that we are marketed as a whole Island by the annointed tourism body. You could find a lot of people who will have a long discussion about how much focus the Northern part of the island gets in terms of advertising etc. in foreign markets, at least in terms of BFS/LDY/BHD as a potential entry point. This has a knock on effect on Tourism related industry here
You've just proven my point! I still reckon that we could sustain a narrowbody legacy flight to the East Coast.

If United weren't so keen on reducing their Transatlantic 757 services, we would still have one.

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