But it obviously works for both sides, so why does it matter so much to some of you folk on here. It's a point some of you seem to bring up time and time again over the years.
Ryanair supply significant customer throughput at Stansted, MAG are making profit and Ryanair offer a whole plethora of routes. The biggest selection of European destinations of any UK airport in fact. So whilst it may deter some operators to offer flights on the same route, the customer can still get from point A to point B, usually at a good price with Ryanair and now with decent service levels. As I'm sure you're aware, some Ryanair routes do indeed sustain 2 or more operators and have done for years. So why do some of you still have an issue with this? Let's leave it to the real experts to run their airlines and airports and stick to reporting airlines and route announcements, like the forum suggests.
Anyhow, tired of all the above now.
On the positive side of things at Stansted, Thomas Cook have increased not just their long haul operation, but it does appear that 3 aircraft will be required to operate the peak summer season flying programme. This is a vast increase in size from just a few years ago when they operated a single A320 at the airport.
Long haul leisure traffic is on the increase as mentioned this year, with MT offering up to 10 departures a week to MCO during the school holidays. This would have been unheard of only a couple of years ago.
Thomson seem to be selling well on their Cancun programme as the route is now going year round, a coup that many UK airports would be happy to have achieved.