but more due to the fact that most people going on these sorts of holidays to Florida weren't going Upper Class leaving some of the aircraft empty?
Cause and effect round the wrong way I'm afraid. The project management to get the new seats on time went wrong so Plan B, like BMI was chuck them on leisure from the regions! (and LGW !)
Actually I think VS do really well out of LGW, LHR, MAN and GLA and I think if they raised their game they could do better and succeed where BMI could not. However again like BMI, they're obsessed with LHR where frankly, they're only getting less competitive.