If NLH decides to pull back, makes you wonder if Ryanair would step into the clearly successful market NLH has tapped. I have heard load factors are very high on the vast majority of NLH flights to the States - clearly a market exists. And nobody could stop Ryanair from that expansion because it would be legal - they just need the airplanes and the landing slots (depending upon which airports they would select)...
NLH might have been a good test case for Ryanair's future entry.