Finally some recognition of this issue!
Since the video won't last, I'll quote what Paul Simmons, the former UK market director said:
"Whenever an airport changes hands, we want to try and get a good deal and relationship with the new owners, so now we have long term 5 year deal which facilitates growth with Stansted's new owners MAG.
We have 27 routes out of Stansted at the moment and recently we started adding longer routes to places like Egypt and Morocco, so this gives us a framework to expand further."
What absolute meaningless waffle that was!
For starters they only have 25 destinations at STN and even that breaks down into 21 currently and 19 for the winter schedule.
Turns out also if you weren't aware that they axed their route to Morocco on 30 May.
Really does come to something when an airline doesn't even know what routes, and how many they fly!
It also doesn't take a genius to work out that longer routes mean less flights and passengers per aircraft, which of course isn't mentioned there's only 7 of those compared to 13 only 4 years ago. How that can be concluded as "a framework to expand further" I do not know.
Goes to show they cannot justify this and it's just not good enough really. Now they are doing the same thing to FCO, despite actually being one of their faster growing airports in recent years.
Clearly not a very forward looking company and just ruthlessly chop and change as and when they feel like to squeeze current yields to the maximum.
Needless to say much more really.