OK, right airline, wrong destination. New York is a huge market, but much of CO's traffic is for onward connections, so is the plan here to tap into a fair slice of MAN's pie too? Daily is ambitious, but then again so was daily to SFB from GLA. How much positioning is going to be needed to support long haul routes from MAN, LPL and GLA, or will they have 3 a/c by then?
"Maybe its to repackage the airport back to Liverpool Airport, more or less, five (?) years to the day from it being named Liverpool John Lennon Airport?"
DWPL, I think that the Lennon connection will have been a useful factor in helping attract more business from the other side of the pond.