There's still rumours (now in newspapers) that BD is planning to ditch or cut services between LHR and MAN/LBA/MME. Apparently LHR-MAN loadings are down to 76,000 journeys a year from 120,000.
I'm still fingers crossed hoping that their loss is our gain. At least nobody is expecting BRS-LHR flights. (Although there are days when First Great Western makes me willing to pay almost anything for BRS-LCY).
BD announce their Winter timetable (commencing Oct 08) soon, and the assumption is that the MAN/LBA/MME axe will fall with that timetable. However you would have thought that someone on Ground Handling at BRS would know by now if they were going to be handling a BD a/c?