Onion - Exactly, the services need to be there before the public can use them. When the services where there 900,000 passengers used DTV in 2005.
The services were there, so what happened?
bmi messed the schedules around on the LHR so people wouldn't want to use the service and then when numbers dropped they cut the route!
or alternatively bmi saw how much they were making out of MME
and used their slots for something making more money
People were using the bmibaby flights and they also used the Flyglobespan services.
bmibaby moved their aircraft out to somewhere else where they thought they could make more money. Flyglobespan came in and went bust - nobody else has moved into pick up the pieces
Holiday flights always have high load factors too.
So where are they? Maybe we need to ask Thomson's/Ryanair
If airlines put the service on with a sensible schedule then people will use the airport. Facts are only a few years ago almost 1 million were using the airport.
Facts are that people will use the airport but not at a price or in the numbers that anybody can make any money.
And in the meantime both LBA and NCL have expanded and filled the vacuum.
Or is it all somebody elses fault?