Originally Posted by
Lee Baker Street
@FRatSTN,
It is worth noting that Ryanair cancel services at Luton but then transfer them to STN. Those cancelled services should be reinstated with a Luton operator such as EasyJet!
With LTN having been neglected on the Irish services for many years now, I would like to see the LTN Airport Management approach Norwegian with view to feeding services from LTN to Ireland destinations for their new USA services.
If you consider it, STN operator MAG is almost fully dependent on FR operations, whilst the likes of LTN, LGW and Heathrow have equal balance between the top airline and the other airlines that operate. In effect Ryanair's 'mega dominance' at STN could become a hindrance in the future and MAG could find themselves bowing to every demand by the airline?
I think it's fair to say that LTN is very heavily reliant on both easyJet and Wizz. Don't they account for something like 70% of flights between them. If LTN lost either of them, they'd had a massive hole to fill.
I hope that some of the lost routes from Ryanair will be picked up by others. I could quite see easyJet taking on Cagliari (they once flew this route from LTN) and a return to Copenhagen in time.
I don't see anyone competing on the Irish routes - no one has dared take on Ryanair yet, so why now? It's a shame that Ryanair doesn't do more from LTN to Ireland - more DUB, flights to ORK & SNN but I can't see it happening.
Norwegian seems a bit of a long shot to me.
Wasn't there talk of someone returning on the WAT route, whats happened about that?