Brussels who cares?
Well I do hope your right, the airport cannot afford any more failures. It was more the fact that the route would have been very very low down my list of options that surprised me. I would have looked at Dublin, Edinburgh and Malaga initially, but never Paris or Brussels! Yes any routes would be a plus, we just don't want short term pluses. As I have said in previous posts even Krakow is more logical to me than Brussels.
I do think Infratil care about who operates (financially care). If they oversee one failure after another their revenue stream has no future. They need a sustainable partner. The damage by failures stifles the interest by more serious operators which ultimately will harm them financially.