Directtangodelta could it be that we are seeing the death of the LHR-MME. We all know that bmi see these slots as potential slots for longer haul flights. Just have to look over the last few years what has happened to the route.
Reduction from 5 a day to 3, down to just 2 a day on a saturday, playing around with the timings so it is harder to connect with other flights in and out of LHR, the fact that the timings aren't as good as they used to be for a days work in London, the re modelling of the business model seems to be putting people off and now leasing in aircraft, I also notice Julys figures for the Heathrow are down 20% to 9223 on the same month last year. When you consider there were 16000+ a month travelling on the route just 2 yaers ago something somewhere is seriously wrong.
Sorry for going off topic but I think bmi have got it wrong at LHR and this is part of the problem, they should be fighting to keep pax on routes like MME because it brings in a completly different market into play at LHR and they have the monopoly on that market. If they lose LHR-MME they will lose a large number of connecting pax.