While the LPA route is good for SNN, lets face it, how many based aircraft and routes has FR pulled from SNN, since MOL didn't get his own way. It's still a huge capacity reduction. FR went into SNN, decimated the competition and then when the going got tough (or didn't get his own way) pulled the routes. With the original airlines, many are once bitten, twice shy, and may be reluctant to reinstate, or are no longer in existance.
I do not want either Belfast airport, to ever be in that, or close to that position.