My company stopped supporting AL cause their prices were ridiculously costly compared to likes of BA and CityJet. I've stopped flying AL months ago. BA cityflyer is rammed every Friday 6pm LCY-DUB.
AL have abandoned Southend after all their fanfare marketing spin they packed up tjeir tents and moved on. Is it any wonder the pax fly with competitors to AL.
Pricing is driven by demand so clearly planes are been filled and I expect all carriers on Fridays are rammed...
As for SEN, EI did not abandon it as they have no commercial say in what happened. Can't see the type of passengers SEN attracted moving to LCY/LHR anyway.