Dysney - Eurostar runs 17 trains between London and Paris every weekday. Each train has 750 seats (5 times that of a standard single aisle aircraft) and has an 80% share of the combined rail-air market.
Any flight between Heathrow and Paris on either BA or Air France will be very dependent on people connecting to mid and long haul flights. City airport works because of the very high premium on time given the earnings of those working in Canary Wharf.
Not saying that Gatwick-Paris can't work but when a competitor has such a high capacity and daily frequency, the only customers would be those travelling to/from Sussex making commercial viability that bit harder to achieve. Either Air France opens a route to source more connecting passengers to elsewhere or it's Easyjet / Flybe doing something similiar to what exists in Luton or Southampton
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 17th Mar 2012 at 05:51.