simoncorbett/wycombe
I'm not suggesting that they don't do it, I'm saying that I'm pretty confident it won't be a regular feature on the schedule. The most direct routing from the UK involves MSA of 18,000ft. Add a wind and QNH correction, and you could be potentially looking at MSA of 23,000ft. Not much margin for an aircraft with a 25,000ft cap. Therefore they take a different routing, adding a lot of time, looking in the order of 3.5 hours from MAN/BHX. In an aircraft with a higher service ceiling, it never goes much beyond 2hr20.