It's worth noting from the CAA Dec 2013 provisional stats:
Newquay - 175,147 passengers
Inverness - 604,098 passengers
Jersey - 1,433,809 passengers
Jersey airport gets over 8 times the passengers of Newquay. With all the offshore finance, it presumably also has a lot of accountants, bankers, lawyers and wealthy people travelling to/from the island. The Jersey-Zurich route presumably exists for this reason.
Of course, Jersey being an island is even more reliant on air transport than Newquay. However, while BA are happy to run a Gatwick-Jersey route, they seem to show no intention of running a Heathrow-Jersey route.
Inverness is even more remote than Newquay from London. A train to Edinburgh takes 3h30. BA don't serve Inverness from London at all - it will become reliant entirely on Easyjet for a London air connection in 6 weeks time.
If Newquay is to have a Heathrow route, there needs to be a very good reason for this to exist. If Newquay wants to use PSO cash, it becomes even harder to make a case for a Heathrow-Newquay route.
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 19th Feb 2014 at 02:17.