LGS
And that means no-one else has made a go of these routes from rural Essex.
Er.. yes they have.
Belfast City:
Air Berlin
Ryanair
BmiBaby
Isle of Man:
Manx2
Newcastle:
EasyJet
Newquay:
Ryanair
Inverness has been tried many years ago but was never reinstated. Jersey and Guernsey are already served by Aurigny yet on lower frequency than in previous years but like virtually every other case up there, is not due passenger demand in which you insinuate. APD or even closure of the operator in BmiBaby's case has lead to the reduction in domestic traffic and why FlyBe may have a good chance to step in and recover these services once again given a more competetive cost base than Gatwick was willing to give them.
Connections are worse than at LHR, LGW and LTN, and that's the reason why domestics - which have continued from other London-area airports - have failed at Stansted.
Gatwick and Heathrow have also seen rapid reduction in domestic flight capacity in recent years and Stansted is no worse or better off really. As for Luton, I can't see how a bunch of Orange and Pink & purple metal is giving better connections than Stansted offers. I think that's just you pride taking over again. Stansted already offers better connections through Air Berlin and Germanwings via Germany and Pegasus via Istanbul for a start.
That's not to mention that Stansted has the greatest number of scheduled European destinations in the world! This is a great way that any domestic services could be promoted for onward connectivity yet even in FlyBe's case, the vast majority of their London passengers will be travelling point-to-point anyway.
Of course however since these routes have never been tried before and that nobody wants to fly to Stansted (except the 17 million people who will use it this year) there is not a cat in hells chance that we will ever see any development!!!