Originally Posted by
goldeneye
......I can see the conbined force of VS and BD working, they are a very good fit, and dont really have any competing routes, exept BOM from LHR......
I'm not so sure they're a very good "fit" at all. SRB has plans at LHR with great expansion of his long haul network. The only thing he doesn't have is slots. bmi to SRB is purely about slots. I doubt the MME's and the BRU, CDG etc etc feature greatly in his plans. In fact I'd hazard a guess that if SMB were to sell it would be the LHR operation that goes.
In the radio feature he states there is a case for shorthaul being restricted as there are more environmentally friendly ways to travel.
However I seem to remember 5 years ago there was a great flurry of activity between bmi and VS that came to nothing.