bmi british midland has applied for a number of new longhaul route licences since joining the Star Alliance. As I understand it the majority of those applications are to enable code share operations on other Star carriers. There are some however, that are probably intended for bmi use. I should think that the routes ex-MAN would be covered in that category. If a route is currently operated by another Star operator then that is most likely intended to be a codeshare application.