As for BHX, Jet2, TUI and TCX have breathed life into leisure short haul after the demise of ZB and our long standing legacy carriers appear to have solid operations. Going east, AI are a success story and both EK and QR are holding their own. TATL scheduled flights though are a thing of the past. Let's move on and forget this whole sorry episode.
Can't disagree with those sentiments at all. BHX (and BHX fans) need to stop putting so much store in transatlantic services and concentrate on the real growth areas of the world economy - Asia in particular. With "The Donald" causing mayhem in world trade, demand for transatlantic trade, unless he comes to his senses (supposing he has any senses) will decline and TA passengers, especially non-leisure traffic will decline with it.
I'm sure BHX management realises that, and will be playing to the airport's strengths, unless of course an American legacy carrier comes in promising the earth, though United aside, their performance over the years from Birmingham has hardly been sparkling!