Appreciate your points, but a think the issue is why doesn't every destination take equal pain - NCL does tend to come off worst. Also, it's the wholesale cancellations when the going gets tough that has upset the Gold Carders at my place of work - not trying to run any type of service is "dissing" the North East. And don't get me started on how a so called full level service airline actually deals with its customers at these times...
Quote - "One final point, the timings on the NCL route from LHR lend themselves to at least one aircraft spending the day on several NCL rotations"
Might do in theory, but doesn't seem to work like that in practice - usually just one aircraft appears more than once in a day and very rare for an aircraft to make more than two visits.