Ernest, LJLA laid down impossible conditions to Jet2 to protect the EasyJet agreement and their routes.
Ironically, the "agreement" between LJLA and EasyJet seems to have been the one thing that got in the way of LJLA's only real hope of expansion; Jet2.
One has to wonder whether the Vancouver boys were fully appraised of all contractual agreements before they signed on the dotted line, though being Peel, nothing would surprise me.
A few people have alot of egg on their faces currently, and there's worse to come...