Whichever way you look at it though, you would expect to be consulted by your 'partner' if they intended to operate a route which might be seen as competitive to one where you were already established. It's not as if LCY-RNS could be seen as essential to the expansion of their LCY network, seeing as they're operating it solely during the 'school holiday' season, so why risk creating ill feeling with your business partner.