Routes
I am pleased that someone has mentioned the fact that many of the UK - Europe feeder routes provide onward travel to many other destinations including Long haul.
It poses the question in providing these services how much might you be losing on transfer travel from these many European airports. Many of us are aware that Mainland Europe travel to Asia near & far, Australasia and the Americas is considerable cheaper, that is fact.
Easy has just posted a loss today and Ryan cannot give its seats away so there may be a lot more sound business decisions made at Waterworld than people give them credit for.
Besides this is the age of technology and all these regional stations can be managed from one place, they do not have to be staffed by BA or covered by BA engineering.