I think it'll be fine, hopefully. We need this bit to go well to hopefully get even just once weekly year-round. I know a few regular business travelers (not business class, or whatever it's called, regular seats but paid for by their employer) and they've always said the flights to London and Dublin appeared full every time they went. We definitely have a healthy amount of that type of traveler; I'm just curious if it's enough for 3x weekly.
Nice thing is the direct flight tourists will be back this summer. They're my second-favourite (the city is still small enough that we end up interacting pretty often with tourists, they're obvious here, if only by accent, in a way they wouldn't stand out in larger cities). They're usually here on business but there's also lots of people in their 30s-40s who buy just because they didn't realize they could reach North America that quickly, check a continent off their list on a weekend. They're always really fun to chat with, second only to the van life people from the States.
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