Detractors are in a safety time loop regarding the STN market as just local.In the near future when "game-changer" Airbus arrive to market STN will be rightly & readily perceived just as the Capital on Trans Atlantics ,especially to a younger pax profile with access to travel tech not imagined a few years ago,with no dogma & old attitudes involved.
Let's review this in 18 months. Young and price sensitive is exactly the market that will ensure failure IMHO. I will
unreservedly apologise if they're making a success of this business model and have a decent summer 2019 with cash reserves for getting into 2010. We're in a repeat of the Stansted threads American flying STN-JFK as a hyperbolic game changer for Stansted, how many thousands of words were typed and hats eaten after that episode.