BAladdy...
The rumour about LCY-NCL is interesting actually.
I heard a rumour about a year ago that Eastern were looking at doing LCY-NCL for 2010. I was told (from a source who has no reason to lie) that the service would be 2x daily, and "partly subsidised" by the promise of regular passengers from a major multi-national company. The deal (or so I am told) fell through largely as the recession hit home, but also that a BA subsidiary had begun looking at LCY-NCL as a possible 3x daily rotation. The company that had approached Eastern, already had a large corporate contract with BA, and T3 didn't fancy running the risk of the deal falling through. I believe T3 have operated LCY-NCL before?
The corporate client was heavily hinted at being Corus.
I have no idea how true it was, or how close it came to fruition, but the man who told me would have little or no reason to make it up...
RTG!