Certainly compounds & reinforces my views concerning Primera when I see off the cuff comparisons of failures such as Laker posted.
Primera are a challenger business within the North American market in this instance making use of innovative airframe & engine advances for customers who are themselves a generation or two removed now from all those failures being regurgitated.
However Laker in his day was a challenger too with access to then innovative new airliner economics which enabled commercial thinking/ideas removed from the mainstream status quo.
Much copy has been written concerning the demise but it is a given that Lakers initiative inspired & made room in every sense for a then young man to start VIR.
Peoples Express in the USA inspired along with deregulation many other start ups in the US.
So Primera much to some posters angst & succeeding or not will eventually innovate & realign a market segment that STN & other worthy airports & operator`s will be able to maximize in the future.