EICAS - now there's a man with NO forward thinking. LH were making money on the STN routes (albeit a small amount) but they can't be seen by the Unions to be supporting wet lease operations when they have just parked 43 of their own machines.
There IS money to be made in aviation right now despite the mega changes that are going on all around us. There are plenty of experienced crews, plenty of airframes and plenty of routes to be flown. All it takes is for some entrepeneur to come along and realise the potential for a small carrier.
Vikings did indeed dream, and it did them no harm either......