iwak....no axe to grind, but in a nutshell, XL need now to be protected on LGW and allowed to grow the market and yield. No more debacles like last year. SNN is the airport with the infrastructure for transatlantic along the West Coast - the total population along the Western seaboard is approx. 1 million people, there are bigger European cities with no US services, the West has one, no need for another. Heard Flyglobespan were not getting the yield. It is hard to see where 600k pax will come from on scheduled alone, let's hope it does, but don't encourage services for the sake of it, focus on sustainable business, and if XL faces competition on LGW I hope the competitor pays the full published charges in line with EU.