Skyman - Have to agree with you on your assumption that we are no closer to a NYC link than 5 years ago. After a fantastic period of growth I now fear were NCL goes from here.
NCL also appears to be loosing out in terms of not picking up routes to the emerging new eastern European economies, for example next summer sees a drop of capacity to KRK with Jet2 dropping the route.
Surerely the bucket and spade routes can't be the only viable ones from NCL. If this is the case then the airports future growth is in serious danger.