the full service carrier we did have-BMI-treated NEMA as its personal feifdom-it was only too happy to fly half full aircraft with full fare pax-this is fine for the airline but not so good for the airport which loses out on the revenue generated by in the main pax throughput-and they still expect the airport to provide the facilities expected by those full fare pax
a good example was the christmas/new year period-everyone else would be heaving at these times, yet NEMA would be like a ghost airport-cancelled flights and all-I'm afraid we had little choice to go down the lo/co route and anyway it was hardly the airports idea to change all BMI mainline to baby!