It seems that MK has been granted a UK AOC and that it could so resume flights to North America, after US authorities had lifted flights for Ghana-registered aircraft following the MK Halifax crash of October 2004. This should be a perfect opportunity for MK to cut back on flights to Ostend and to concentrate on Manston. At present 25 percent of MK movements within Europe are shorter than 200 miles (Manston-Ostend, 65 miles and Ostend-Luxemburg, 180 miles). This is an utmost waste of time and money. Recently MK has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ostend authority, intending to intensify substantially as a ‘preferential partner’ its freight activities, however promising to schedule all operations during day time. Such intentions could also be held in Manston, provided MK be treated as a preferential partner. In the view of Manston in a pressing need for expansion, efforts to get much more MK flights might result in its survival, which at present doesn’t seem so evident.