Re DTVAirport's and onion's allusions to Filton and the BRU route from MME,
Filton is owned by Bae but is much more than a factory field.
It styles itself as Bristol Filton Airport (I'd better not give the web link because of PPRuNe's advertising policy) but a Google search will soon find it for anyone interested.
It receives all sorts of aircraft from 747s to private single-engined machines (and could accept the A 380), and refurbishes, repairs, stores, provides taxi and similar services as well as a timetabled scheduled programme on weekdays, but the latter is mainly in connection with aerospace activities. It will also operate Bristol's night mail flights this winter because the BRS runway is being closed for re-surfacing each night.
It is also used for some diversions when BRS is fog-bound but this is limited and usually restricted to the smaller turbo props.
As for the BRU market, it is not a big one.
CAA stats for June show that apart from LHR with nearly 70,000 pax, MAN with 15,000-plus and BHX with 14,000-plus, every other UK airport with a BRU route fared modestly, and June 's figures are not untypical.
LCY had 6,534 and LGW had 5282.
The smaller regional airports (sorry EDI!) that reported for June show BRS with 5720, EDI with 3766, LBA with 2858, SOU with 1738 and CWL with 509.
It would be interesting to see the sort of figures a MME-BRU route would pull in and whether they would make money for Eastern.
The pulled MME-BRS route achieved these monthly figures in the first months of this year, respectively 799, 895, 902 and 658. As a comparison the easyJet NCL-BRS carries between 20,000 and 22,000 most months.
Presumably Eastern would look for larger loads than their defunct MME-BRS on a MME-BRU route.