Originally Posted by
skyman771
100% agree!, insofar as NCL is concerned a good LGW service could be of significantly more benefit to NCL than any 3rd runway at LHR..
Er how? People on the MAN thread point at LGW as a missing link on their network but it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Gatwick doesn’t do connections well, it really doesn’t. BA do not hub, it’s a point to point business model based on the leisure market and some points redemption to keep the frequent flier base sweet. Even GLA/EDI struggle with good weekend connections to BA long haul as the short haul fleet refocuses away from domestic flying on summer weekends. This year, VS have the smallest volume of LGW seats in over 15 years. Some days only had three flights as focus is on MAN and LHR. Even Norwegian feeding their own long haul remains loss making.
So the reason LHR wins is it gets the local London traffic and connections whereas LGW has a tiny fraction of the available connections, which is exactly why no one flys the route. There’s no significant benefit that I can see that LGW brings.