Indeed, but the main thrust of recent posts has been around the lack of stand space and consequent loss of business. I’m not sure what the cost would be to operators such as TUI, Jet 2 etc in running away bases and indeed what current EU/UK rules allow. Similarly, there can be an impact on the traditional 7 day holiday in using an away based aircraft but that may not be of significance. I tend not to agree on internal connections, I think that market has passed its peak although the current non Beeching driven rail shambles doesn’t help. Unfortunately I spent my latter working years in rather short term culture and that tends to colour my judgement!