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SWBKCB
Doubt whether these figures have changed in recent years, so the question would be why didn't Stansted have more business class traffic when times were better? Would be interesting to know who was filling the EK flts.
Any prospective disrupters have been dealt with by the big boys in the past. I would have thought they would now fight even harder to protect their key markets (assuming they can...) - maybe JetBlue will be better equipped to go toe-to-toe?
Canary Wharf should be known as ‘Little Essex’. A massive proportion of the workforce live there. So leaving from home or leaving from work, Stansted is a big advantage for many who otherwise suffer the M25 or trains across London.
Time will tell. Covid has kind of pressed the reset button on a lot of things within aviation. Who would have imagined a Gatwick without Virgin twelve months ago? Dynamics within the aviation sector look set to change over the coming few years. We’ve already seen a fair few surprises.