I'm not sure these days what say airports actually have in a route network.
I'm sure Newcastle would love to have 3 daily returns to Bristol,Belfast,Stansted Gatwick and now Copenhagen et al...the airlines do the sums(apparently) and think Bristol to Poland ( that's a pick out of the sky BTW) makes them more money than a short haul routes with a potential of 200k passengers per year?, and that was Copenhagen as well ??
Now the common denominator is...EZY !!
Not sure what the answer is..we are all armchair CEOs. But without being parochial..this is the NE backwater!
No hope south of the region in DTV..at least Ncl is on the up again.