Originally Posted by
Navpi
Whilst MAG might be grateful EZY take the MAN slots they will be shelll shocked if domestic air bridge disintegrates!
Problem is that the FlyBe slots are in Terminal 3 and EZY are a Terminal 1 operator. There is no domestic facility in T1, only T3. EZY's MAN-BFS is handled as a special case not repeatable on a larger scale. MAN is terminal-constrained not runway constrained, so slots coming available have to be in the right terminal. This was an issue with back-filling Monarch at Terminal 2, and partially what led to Jet 2 having a split-terminal operation at MAN.