I would definitely rather be stuck in US for 3 days instead of somewhere like Lithuania where they don't speak English.
So you would tell that to your fee paying longhaul pax would you?
they would be able to supplement the 752 on tech to fly the route, and bring in one of the charter Channel Express a/c that are sat waiting for charters.
Are you saying they would have spare aircraft hanging around not flying to cover for tech aircraft? That increases costs straight away. See the problem? And you can't use a 737 to rescue a 757 load unless you are flying the 757 with a low load factor.....which doesn't fit the low cost model. And of course there is the pond between the 737 and the tech aircraft.
The only problem I think that LS have is offering Upper Economy seats, which is not part of the current service
I would have thought that was one of the easier problems to overcome for such a venture. It is certainly not the 'only' problem.
PP