A number of posts on other airport specific threads, but I'll summarise here. The reinstated Flybe service between SEN/ANR has restarted, causing some of us to comment on the effect (or not) on the VLM LCY/ANR service. This caused a wider ripple of interest noting that VLM have apparently requested slots at MAN for a ANR-MAN-OST-MAN-ANR service. However, they themselves have flatly denied any interest in starting this service, despite it being reported in the slot allocation report for MAN S18 and various other sources.
So VLM (Antwerp) now have the LCY/ANR service up and running, together with ANR-ZRH and ANR-MBX via MUC and the ANR-BHX service, which finally started today. And, apparently, no interest in MAN and OST at this time.
The fleet of 6 F50s is actually only 4 operable at the moment and this may well stop any further expansion (MAN/OST) for the moment.
Passenger loads are (anecdotally) struggling, except on LCY although that has been <40% on a significant number of occasions. The fares being charged cannot be offsetting the low numbers onboard across the network.
This still seems like a very odd restart.