Um, chaps and chapesses. Why oh why the continual going on about Charters? I'm new, but have lurked, so flame away. But really, reading the horny chestnut of BRS vs NCL, getting your knickers in a knot over a few clapped out 733's or 75's (apologies to respective airlines-clapped in comparison to shiny 77's or new A319's), does not a big player make. Transporting the 'shiny clothed ones' on their annual farrago to Her Majestys colony of Magaloooooooof fails to add to an airports prestige. Yes, inherent value in money said shiny ones spend on their lambert and butlers and voddy and the employment of air/cabin crew and gndstaff is very acceptable. But they come and go, there is no tenacity in these markets and what there is, is being encroached upon by the No-Frills carriers.
What about news from the front re a new carrier taking over where AA AAlmost left off? What about opening markets to Eastern Europe? Is NCL not a big player with the poles? Where are the RIX or TLL or where is the GWY or the competition on LGW or larger aircraft to CDG or Longhaul to ANU/BGI/SLU? Or the year round Sevilles or Granada's or the villa-shuttles to Limoges/bod/perpignan?