The news that Jet2 are recruiting BFS flight crew gives everyone the biggest clue yet where the next base will be and pours water on speculation about PIK and other places.
Some weeks ago bmi Chairman Michael Bishop commented that the airline market in certain areas of the UK was already saturated and pointed to Belfast as an example. He's got a point when it comes to the BFS/BHD to mainland Britain market with BA, bmi, EZY & Flybe carving it up. Where Belfast is underserved (and its probably the only untapped region left in the country) is on routes into mainland Europe including all the usual low-co destinations such as AGP, PMI etc. In theory BFS would play a nice complimentary role to LBA as base.
We of course wait for an official announcement.