marketing
there are people living in Birchington 5 mins from Manston that didn't know you could fly from Manston, in comparison E.U jet came in with a blaze of publicity. Referring to the article in the Kent on Sunday thay have said that there are already services to Faro & Alicante, they are obviously not aware that the Alicante flight has been dropped. May be that was because most people wanted flight only and not the overpriced packages.