Originally Posted by
richardwpprn
In the longer term cross rail will offer a good service from Old Oak Common to Heathrow and HS2 from the Midlands to Old Oak Common, demand from BHX may just evaporate. A seasonal AA, UA or JetBlue service is all that can be hoped for.
If, as I used to, I were travelling from BHX to Italy, Romania, Ukraine, Sweden, Latvia or Hong Kong and I needed to travel for an hour or so before connecting at an intermediary airport then bottom of my list of intermediary airport choices would be LHR!