Originally Posted by
yeo valley
Im sure they use BHD to EXT to get the dash to Ext for maintainence,which would make sence as they would not be flying round with empty aircraft.
very rarely is this route used to get aircraft to EXT for maintenance. Swaps happen at most bases - sometimes crew can have 2 aircraft swaps in 1day and they are only operating 4 sectors. MAN is a great place to swap aircraft because of the HUB system where the aircraft from other bases are on the ground at a very similar time therefore making it easy to swap planes, otherwise you have to have an aircraft sitting idle at say EXT waiting on the BHD aircraft at wa time when that aircraft could be flying from EXT.