Why can't you make a profit flying A330's on short hall? Im actually surprised we don't see more widebodies on the trunk bucket and spade routes in Europe. I quite often see airlines like TOM and TCX having a couple of 737/757/A320 flights a day to the same destination from places like MAN, BHX, LGW, during the summer. Its got to be better financially to put all those passengers on a A330/767 than flying 2 seperate shorthall planes hasn't it? I can understand if they are struggling to fill that much capacity, but the widebodies that do fly shorthall routes in Europe always seem to have good load factors. In fact the reason there is so much debate about what LS are going to get to replace the D7 A330 with is because they have already sold alot of that capacity. which is why they can't just be downgraded to a single 757.