Departing this weekend £250 return on Jet2 to AGP, £205 on easyJet to ALC. Two of the most popular routes and you don't get any more high season than this weekend. Yet I can get a family of for off to the Costas last minute for less than a grand.
It has been said that FR will stimulate demand when it won't. It will trash (already poor) yields.
If you would rather the airport be served from outside then fine. There are many aspiring aviators on here. Let's give them a local career. Not some hourly paid contractor rubbish stuck abroad.
If everything is served from outside all we will be left with is a few extremely underpaid and undervalued ground jobs.