I don't get all the talk about a new Waterford route starting up from Luton...
Im sure Waterford would love someone to pick up the route but it ain't going to happen anytime soon, unless there is an airline with the right equipement willing to base an aircraft at either Luton or Waterford.
The Irish airport is too small to handle the likes of a 737-800 or A319 that Ryanair or easyJet can fly in. FlyBE are cutting back their routes and only operate into Waterford from Manchester and Birmingham, because that is a base for them.
Im sure there is demand for the route, but I don't see the demand being any higher than if the route operated to/from another London airport.
To quash the ideas further of FlyBE ever operating the route, if anyone cares to go to the Waterford airport website they are making the most of the exisiting FlyBE routes and the airline offers onward connections to Dusseldorf, Paris, Nice and numerous other UK airports. They will have no connections to offer here at Luton and FlyBE are barely going to be willing to use the route to feed passengers on to other airline routes with the likes of easyJet.