Given that EI have 3 x daily on BHD LGW, and Ryanair going to x4, that will mean an increase of seats daily of 324 each way, in context amounting to a move from 9 daily flights between Belfast Airports and London Gatwick to 10. However, given slightly higher frequency and bigger ac, this amounts to an increase of 75% on the number of seats that EI had available on the LGW route ex BHD. Gatwick will overtake Heathrow as the busiest Belfast London route for the first time. The scale of this change may not be monumental to easyJet as the level of capacity is not growing massively.
It is starting to feel like BFS has struck a deal with Ryanair, that means new routes will be developed, and easyJet can continue to work its own patch, and the LGW as an example is a massive change in terms of overall market capacity. Though I do note Ryanair flights at 9.99 out...