OK, so CO complain about taxes again. They have a fair point, DUB is much cheaper.
But govt is under heavy pressure from the green lobby to tax aviation to death, and Cameron personally wants to be seen as green.
However much CO bitch, APD is a one-way issue - fly BFS/BHD to LON and you pay twice.
There are (and won't be) any trains from BFS* to England or Scotland - so any arguments saying people shouldn't fly just don't wash.
Yet the government can't be seen to be giving yet more subsidy to Northern Ireland.
Solve for x?
*(why didn't IATA have a generic Belfast code - ok, the Brazilians have nicked BEL?)