Totally agree you you EI-BUD. The NYC route needs to be maintained and UA are aware of that, therefore they played a game and won. Regarding EZY over KLM, dident a manager from KLM say the problem with the Belfast route was a very a low percentage of people were transferring and they need to get that up. I know from experience that quite a lot of transferring passengers use EZY as a fair few landing cards were always handed out when I operated them. As for SN, not many connecting options and stats speak for themselves.