I agree irish laddie. It doesn't make much sense to route Irish flights across or around London airspace to land 40 miles to the east, especially with turboprop equipment, no matter how good the rail links from SEN. Fernchurch St/Liverpool St have nothing like the connectivity of the Thameslink line -Bedford to Brighton, 2 main London interchanges & LGW. LTN was and is the obvious London destination for RE. 2012 may be good for business at SEN, but should be regarded as a bonus. I can see more GWY to London traffic haemoraging to NOC/SNN