continuing basis to take services from Lgw.
The decision is taken by the operator who finds LHR a more profitable operation than LGW in this market. It's not a LGW service by right stolen by another business, it's a London route choosing an airpoert that fits it's business model better, with GA and VN due to alliance connectivity at T4, albeit limited.
this must be starting to have an effect on lost revenue to the big 3 across the Atlantic and their cosy arrangement to try and funnel us all through high fares Lhr.
One of the main complaints on the Manchester thread, and it's a good point is this. MAN cannot compete with LHR for point to point long haul as LHR keeps siphoning off traffic on cheaper connections than MAN's direct can offer. This is because, e.g. LHR-NYC has so much frequency and capacity that the airlines are effectively capacity dumping Economy seats. Now, both of these cannot be true at the same time. It's great that Norwegian are offering a good deal in the market, but it's not that much cheaper than some of the other deals on offer.
btw who are the big three?
North American / Caribbean Transatlantic Deps LHR 2015S
AC 11 daily
DL 12 daily + VS 17 daily = 29 daily
UA 17 daily
AA 17 daily + BA 49 daily = 66 daily