[QUOTE There is something seriously wrong with how the airport is approaching this. QUOTE]
That may well be true, but let's remember that SEN's runway is restricted. How many of those additional passengers could have come to SEN anyway?
I am surprised that SEN hasn't attracted more foreign airlines to use it as a gateway to London in the way that it used to be so many decades ago when LTU, Braathens, Martinair, SABENA, Transair, Fred Olsen, Schreiner and many more filled the apron. Perhaps the new Air Malta service will be the straw in the wind which raises SEN's profile in Europe.....