I wish it were possible for Belfast to win some new transatlantic routes with a major carrier but in my thinking they have let Dublin get too far ahead and coupled with the US Border pre-clearance in DUB, the future is bleak unless Ryanair finally decide to send one of their 738s to New York/Boston to start a loco Transatlantic carrier. In that case, Belfast should be fighting tooth and nail to get MOL to base it in BFS.
And then some of you are talking about starting an Asian route, from N.Ireland???? shall we just call that a money pit and move on?
Someone else touched on it above, a lot of the backing for the DUB routes is from Govt subsidies. Seeing how everyone at Stormont has their GBBCA rose tinted glasses on, this is not likely to manifest itself at BFS any time soon!