Mr Mac
Hopeless diversion from main topic, but would agree. I used to fly LHR-LBA a fair bit in the mid-late 90's/early 2000's and ended up flying on all sorts of flying kit (typical BMI). On many occasions the taxi at LHR took longer than the flight and on stormy evenings at Leeds one would sometimes end up in MAN
One of the best flights I've ever had was one evening when an A321 pitched up at LBA to operate the service back to LHR....the very, very few of us who boarded and could sit where ever we wanted, were exposed to relentless service all the way back to LHR. Happy days. Miss British Midland an awful lot.