transwede - agree with your post 100%. Another point worth bearing in mind is that next year we are, if the polls are correct, going to have a tory government. This will have a huge affect on the UK airline industry as they plan to hammer it harder than Labour. BA have already announced that the loss of the plans for a third runway at LHR, which Cameron and his mob are committed to scrapping will mean NCL and other regions are likely to loose the LHR routes as the slots will be needed elsewhere.
The added challenge for the airline industry appears to be a political system which now sees the UK airline industry as the new 'kicking boy'. Hearing politicians speak of pricing folks out of flying fills me with dread. I even heard a debate at lunch time on the radio in which Stephen Norris (former tory transport spoksmen) suggested instead of flying to the likes of Malaga we should use the train, he obviuosly has not travelled on the UK railways for a while. In the same program it was stated that a future tory government should stop all long haul ambitions for the likes of NCL and LBA airports as we are so close to Manchester we can travel by train and fly on from there - God help us all.
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