Originally Posted by
GayFriendly
Not so bad for NCL then, that's better news than for BHX
I wonder how flights from GLA and EDI have been affected? MAN seemingly hasn't been affected implying that BHX can't have been performing but no idea why given that schedules hasn't changed much on either route for many years (although we did lose the MUC night stopper a while ago)
We flew out to BCN, via FRA, with LH from BHX the Thursday before last. The 10.15 am flight was full, I think, and Business (4 rows from memory) was also more or less full. Our return flights were cancelled by LH and they rebooked us via AMS, on KLM. That Business Class offering was probably about 60-70% full; economy was packed then too. Obviously this is anecdotal, and I accept LH had withdrawn the lunchtime FRA flight, but the heavily loaded mid-week flight might suggest they were doing pretty well at BHX. I suspect it's probably more to do with it simply being a consequence of them closing Cityline very quickly without having the equipment to backfill the routes at short notice at the previous frequency, rather than any great desire to downgrade the route permanently. I guess we'll see in the fullness of time. I entirely take the point, though, that such limited frequencies now on offer will surely deter bookings which might do longer-term damage to both FRA and MUC.