Greetings from the tropics GROUNDHOG
Just been reading that some are putting faith in a new SEN/NQY/SEN service expecting to fill up to 156 seats in each direction.
Well, back in the day, when much, if not all, of the London airports were clagged out we would divert a LHR bound NQY/PLH DHC7 in to SEN to move punters by road between the two, by the time any punters from LHR arrived to SEN by coach they could have already been the best part of the way to Devon/Cornwall by coach already.
Think about it, any punters from the South East corner, the Home Counties, indeed from the midlands and further north (since the construction of the A14 linked the M1/M6 with the M11 and STN, by the time they've headed a further hour east to a peninsula somewhere in Essex, well they could already be the best part of the way to Devon/Cornwall.
Nothing against SEN, it has it's potential, namely eastbound and across water, "London to Cornwall" it is not!