I've always thought that if bmi were a more crucial player in the Star Alliance, that we might have had more hope of seeing foreign Star carriers launch flights to EMA. For example, the lack of a Central European hub feeder service could have been operated by a Lufthansa regional airline to FRA, or the lack of a trans-atlantic flight to a major American city & hub might have been served by United to ORD. However, with a predominantly bmibaby presence at EMA, and bmi not being one of the majors in the alliance, this sort of dream thinking will never happen. I for one would love to see longhaul at EMA, but it's all a wish list, BHX is scraping to get longhaul scheduled traffic and as the UK's second city Birmingham really ought not have these problems finding airlines to fly there, the problem it seems is north of London the yields shrink heavily - even with a lack of competition! EMA has done a great job in the last four years expanding our low-cost portfolio which is currently the airport's bread-and-butter. Surely the airport could therefore be concentrating on encouraging baby to add the promised sixth aircraft, or easyJet to add a fourth, rather than some pie in the sky dreaming of a daily flight to EWR.