British airways will be laughing all the way to the bank, virgin are paying aer lingus 1 million a week to operate the domestic service and ba will still carry the same amount of passengers just with less flights than before thus increasing their profit, I for one hope that the virgin domestic service works and perhaps is the start of perhaps future routes out of Aberdeen although I doubt anything will change. I can see in 12 months Virgin finding away to finish the domestic experiment an trading the domestic slots for international flts, guess we will wait and see