Originally Posted by
southside bobby
The major problem for STN is the enduring legacy (at present) of "Fortress Heathrow" & Alliance "market cartels" furthering their own ends with lack of customer thinking/service & imagination.
This is demonstrably false. Any airline which has operated from STN and any other London airport has had commercial data to support staying or dropping. When American flew STN-ORD and STN-JFK they genuinely brought something new to the market and tried to make it work. The route would not have been dropped if it had held it's own in the market, it would have been a succesful niche addition supporting LHR in the London market, just like Emirates. Except the numbers of the STN-JFK compared to LHR-JFK didn't stack up and it makes commercial sense to funnel traffic over LHR. It was a strategic spoiler against Maxjet and EOS but make no mistake, if those numbers had been good, they'd have stayed. They were not.
There's too many on here that defend airports like football clubs, loyal to the death, hand on heart, that have never had their backsides handed to them on a plate because a business case they championed failed. (Still sore) It's business, not personal.