Things do look bleak from some points of view at NCL but it's not 100% doom and gloom (only 85%!). Braathens intend to withdraw before the new year even though their pax figures are not disastrous, but Norwegian Air Shuttle who fly the route on behalf of BU are looking at keeping the route for themselves. Go almost certainly will expand before too long (their pax figures are high); the STN route will go to 3 rotations a day, and there's talk of expanding to European points on their network by next summer. The Brussels route is a worry at the minute: BE and DAT are both flying 146's on the route at almost the same times, each carrying between 0 and 20 people (there's been several empty aircraft recently). One airline will have to give in eventually - my guess is that BE will pull out once DAT re-establish themselves. As a BE employee told me the other day: "I hope we haven't overcooked things up here." So do we! As Toontartcart said, things can only improve!
