" Britannia pulled the plug on its scheduled service to Belfast from Luton."
I always thought Britannia missed a great opportunity there. I operated several of those BFS-LTN schedules, they were cheap and they were always full.
If Brit had kept the newest of the 732s (which went for silly money), kept on the pilots, (who they paid to go away) they would have had the wherewithal to extend the scheduled service network. Ryanair and Easyjet might never have happened.
Not that I'm complaining - I and quite a few others did very well out of the way things happened.