en2r, excuse me, I am full sure I am not "in denial"
The published flight time as advertised by Ryanair is padded to allow for delays, the block time for crew is exactly the same for both STN and BVA, varying perhaps by 5 minutes. The whole point of mentioning sector length etc was that someone pointed out that BVA was "unprofitable for its sector length". Unfortunately the 350k pax figure I had in my head was from a Ryanair memo a year ago stating that the said figure had been carried since its inauguration.
The attitude of the "Cork supporters" indicates that any flight operating into Cork is not/and could not be affected by the economic climate, oil prices etc! There is just as much a chance of routes from Cork, not nessecarily Ryanair being culled in this instance as there is Shannon