What's your view on the delight expressed by many businesses and indeed the airport in Inverness that LHR-INV has been restored? Your point is there is no financial gain on such an airfield having a LHR link?
'Delight' as you put it does not equal trickle down on this new Inverness route. At best some INV locals can access LHR easier than ever, and vice versa. The route already exists between LGW and has done for years.
And it would also seem that the 'investment' of this new LHR-INV is totally reliant upon the locals in INV themselves, rather than LHR as is clearly stated in this article:
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp...lose-says-ceo/
Or maybe his comments are also directed to the wider community to use this route or lose it, the people who will lose out most are obviously those in Inverness not at LHR, why would they care.