Why does LTN need to worry so much about TUI leaving ? It's not as if LTN has large amounts of unused capacity and is running at far below its authorised number of passengers per year.
Yes, there was a need for something better than queueing up for the bus at 11 pm in the rain... but a bus service that was
a) more frequent
b) more reliable
c) easier automated verification that pax had paid the bus farer
d) faster bus boarding and de-boarding process
e) plenty of good luggage space on the bus
could have solved this problem at a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the risk.
Transport between Parkway and the terminal went from an awful service to being gold-plated - something in between would have sufficed.