Maxjet
Nickmanl,
Air Travel is not all about buisness travellers,the general public who dont have five grand in their back pocket want to fly to USA/Canada etc from a congestion free airport. They want to turn up,park and get on plane and go, getting to Heathrow found this catchment area is a god given night-mare having to transit the M25 and M4 and then into Heathrow itself.
British Airways has always made in known that they have no intentions of flying from Stansted, they prefer people to get to congested and cluttered/jammed up Heathrow, these airlines are not customer based, they dont care how you get there, how long it takes, but just get here,pay through the nose and be jammed into a seat.
I am not saying Maxjet would be any different, but the travelling public have the right to fly to anywhere as cheaply as possible, if BA wont offer that service, then an airline that has the bottle to do it will !!
You only have to look at BA's short haul routes and the arrival of EasyJet and Ryanair, see how that drove prices down and filled seats, why should I pay £400 for a flight, when flying from a "field in Essex" as the man says fly for half that.
True there is little connecting flights for buisness travellers, but if corporate bosses actually have their heads screwed on the right way, think of the thousands that can save by sticking their staff on a low cost carrier.
Dont knock an airline that has a reasonable buisness idea, in favour of current airlines that will not give customers what they want,