Originally Posted by
MaverickPrime
Can anyone tell me how NCL, smaller airport than BFS, has a direct route to DXB and can manage to sustain it?
The flight is moderately-loaded and so has a lot of belly cargo space, which is usually filled and is very lucrative. There is freight shipped from Scotland and much of the rest of the UK, even overflow from East Midlands.
Which explains why Newcastle can sustain a daily 777, but not why Belfast could't attract one single Middle East carrier when Dublin have three...