I do believe my local MME will fall victim to bmi's axe, although I have been told that they are staying for the winter, with the Saturday evening night-stopper being upgraded from an E145 to an A319, but what I can't understand is, why chop entire routes? Why not just take one rotation of LBA, one or two off MME, one or two off MAN, etc etc, that way, you free up slots, and keep the regional routes to feed the new long haul routes?