Hope the Newcastle operation will be by VLM rather than others, because they seem able to do things much better. The Leeds BMI route was an example, seeming slackly run (I think I was one of the few to actually use it) with only 4, later 3, round trips, with leisurely turnrounds and not very slick timings. If VLM had run it would have been a 5-a-day operation I suspect.
The GNER railway service up the east side of the country seem a much harder challenge for business traffic than the Virgin routes up the west side.
Was recently impressed while waiting to depart for MAN how VLM did a ground connection for one pax travelling Brussels - LCY - Manchester, who they got from one aircraft to another in about 60 seconds, with hold baggage too !