Runway extension
Get me some traffic: like TOPPROP your reply does not make sense. Why would it be cheaper to extend the runway at MME than NCL. More importantly who is going to use it. The traffic is simply not at MME, Flyglobespan can't even carry on their two aircraft base through the winter for shorthaul so who is going to operate long haul from MME?
On the subject of the legacy - lowcost airline transatlantic debate I would hazard a guess that it will to some extent depend on how Flyglobespan do out of Liverpool to Newark, if it does well and bookings must as they are continuing daily into the Winter then I suspect other low cost operators will follow. Jet2 is ideally placed to get in on the act before many of the others. I am sure they would do well operating NCL to EWR with regard to the legacy carriers they have not been too interested at NCL before as both CO and Delta could have stepped in by now to pick up the fiasco created by the AA pullout.
Thanks