Please define the “third way to the London market untapped historically for many years”?
11 years as a marketing analyst, I must have missed something.
I am not having a go at EZY or LS so not sure what you are defending.
easyJet will drop a profitable route if it fails to maintain targets. The fact they maintain some domestic routes from STN is meaningless in itself. If the aircraft is better deployed elsewhere they will be moved. They even moved capacity from STN to SEN!