MV,
Thanks for your response. I'm not sure that Flybe want to reduce services at BRS, rather that it may be difficult to expand services further without setting up an actual crew and aircraft base at the airport, something that may be impractical given the closeness of EXT.
The BOD/EGC routes are facilitated via the BHD route, the aircraft being based at BHD and flying down from BHD and then out to EGC/BOD. I think that last year the EGC route was operated as a W pattern ex SOU, much like the TLS service is ex BHX.
It may be that the cost of setting up a crew base at BRS may put pressure on the viability of services. Maybe Flybe are trialling services from EXT to see if the demand is there. SOU,BHX and BRS have all proved popular with EXT and LBA joining Flybe routes to EGC for Summer 2006.
I very much doubt that a full pull out from BRS is likely. The TLS route does very well with high yield traffic from BAe heading down to Airbus at TLS. I sincerely hope that Flybe do not pull out from BRS but I think it likely that any major expansion will feature at EXT in the short term.