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I take your point, but we are talking about route capacity and aircraft size, the whole point of long range short haul aircraft is allowing the opening of routes that wouldn’t work with a wide body.
Many visiting the US from LGW will be tourists visiting the big Apple or Chicago or Seattle
Of course there is tourism to Rhode Island but a lot are visiting family and friends, two different markets with some overlap
Will it work? the jury is still out but the signs from Dublin at least are positive