I've had to put aside some very tasty black pudding (with tripe of course) and cancel a shift down t' pit in order to reply but I do agree that it's all about demonstrating a demand from the north! I'm encouraged by the Poitiers survey but presumably Ryanair (and any other airline) would have to take into account the business they'd lose from Stansted in putting on new northern routes. Having said that, every flight that I've been on recently from Stansted to Poitiers, Tours or Limoges has been full so presumably there's scope for further flights. What about a writing campaign to that nice Mr O'Leary to demonstrate demand - the worst he can do, as he did to the EU recently, is to tell us to "#### off"!