All well and good setting up a task force and discussing a Heathrow route. Similar has happened at Jersey, IOM, Newquay, Plymouth, Leeds (potentially?, Guernsey, Inverness etc.
The task force (which had strong links to LHR) has just reported...
Govt distorted demand
Do you mean the tax break in the budget for North Sea development? If so don't see how this adjusts demand between Newcastle and Teesside. I'm sure Eastern know this market far better than any on here, but there does appear to have been more cancellations out of MME recently than NCL, and almost universal reduction in capacity to ABZ from other UK airports