Originally Posted by
Skipness One Foxtrot
The ONLY reason MAN-LGW is coming back at all is to feed LGW-ISB, which will last as long as it takes for PIA to be allowed back into the UK.
As has been mentioned many times, BA don’t care a jot what PIA does. You seem to be obsessed with direct flights, whether it’s Bangkok, Pakistan or wherever. The majority of U.K.-Pak traffic is funnelled through the Middle East and is painfully low yielding. LGW-ISB will be around until they have a better, more reliable income source for the aircraft.
Whether MAN-LGW remains will probably depend on how much traffic they get connecting onto the Caribbean/Florida routes.
Back in the day MAN-LGW was simply a crew shuttle for the vast amount of charter operators that would have their two largest bases in LGW and MAN with W-patterns everywhere. Unfortunately the new schedule is of little use for crew positioning, particularly southbound. And of course, most of those operators and W-patterns have long since gone.