Lack of suitable aircraft led to the concentration of the WW reaction to the BACON/flybe merger at BHX. It is a shame that MAN had to miss out on growth last year, but hopefully if the new routes ex MAN are sucessful then we may finally see the long promised growth from MAN from Summer 09.
As usual with the bmi group, any kind of expansion is always very long and carefully drawn out... they don't like change and they don't like risk!!!!