Slightly off topic I know - was talking to someone with their "finger on the pulse"recently - apparently mainline/baby are looking at their NI ops closely at present with a view to trying to make savings where possible. It seems that operating from both BFS and BHD is costing a small fortune.
Have been told that baby ops will switch to BHD before the end of the year - at the same time the poorly performing MME link will cease and the CWL link could well be taken over by Air Wales, leaving baby to concentrate on developing the MAN and EMA services from BHD. All this is in spite of AR's recent press statement that this would never happen!
Wait and see! Perhaps a clean up prior to Virgin merger!
Last edited by ALLMCC; 29th Jun 2004 at 11:16.