I think had Flybe been at all interested in MAD they would have taken on the route directly from BACON to keep the regular punters on the route happy....I would eat my hat if they suddenly decided they wanted to give it a go now!
Gleno, here's hoping your email to Air Nostrum gets the route development team thinking...... and sharp-ish too! Sometimes at the moment it does feel like its doom and gloom in terms of new services and carriers at MAN. Looks like it could be a while until MAN is back on its feet with some of these lost routes............ but here's hoping I'm proved wrong.