Gayfriendly,
I understand Aerosvit are looking at coming back with a 2/3 times BHX-Kiev flight. No dates yet but they've changed ticketing agents (in the UK end) & I believe they're trying to push Kiev as a destination (nice City apparently) in addition to the usual traffic to Asia.
As regards to the Emirates, todays lunchtime flight was upgraded to a B773 & the Manchester flight routed MAN-BHX-DXB to pick up the stragglers. I believe the evening flight is an A330 as usual.
From an engineer I spoke to today, it seems Emirates may have to airfreight a new engine in although this will probably be flown into East Mid's & transported down the M42. (apparently the handling agents [at BHX] turn away a number of cargo flights due to lack of staff/equipment & they end up going to East Mids or Coventry)
WNC