JKP505 - I would have thought that if those routes would be profitable for the operators in question, they would have a go at them. It is all very well spouting about what a disappointment "x" is and why haven't we got "y" but you don't seem to realise that airlines are businesses and not registered charities.
Whether you like it or not, the management of those businesses take their own decisions. You say that Newcastle could hold a flight to BGY. You evidently don't know that BGY is a nightmare for at least two UK low fare carriers operating there - low yields AND poor pax volumes. Yet you expect someone to have a go? No thanks.
Rant over and returning back to the topic, has anyone else heard rumours of FlyBe and Air France going through a planned divorce, of which NCL-CDG going to CityJet is only a small part?