I'll have to admit that I have mixed feeling about the UA story..
Im due to fly with them in November and if they had pulled out I would have been screwed, also as someone with 100k UA miles at least now I know I have 3 years to use them.
However, I do question the £3 million price tag. UA knows they had NI over a barrel and seem to have played their hand well. What's not clear is what they are supposed to spend it on (someone on twitter mentioned advertising for the BFS route).