I remember United strongly defending the importance of their GLA-IAD route literally the week that the announcement was made they were axeing it. I have also had a request for a refund on LHR-MME with bmi denied when we all knew it was axed but no announcement had been made. Businesses work in siloes.
PR and marketing are all positive and nice, revenue management and finance are realistic.
Hence you must always take
PR with a bucket of salt, no
matter who is talking. Saying the wrong thing can even upset the share price.
And surely easyJet didn't "double their costs" when they finally set up at MAN after years at LPL? Room for both surely?