personal feeling is that we might well start to see a fairly large increase in routes for BACF from LCY (depending on a/c becoming available/new a/c being purchased)
i also think that we might well see some non LCY routes for BACF sometime in the not too distant future! could well be a return to some regional flying for BA!
all my opinion!
but to answer the question i think that LCY-MAN could well happen in the not too distant future, also why not ABZ & NQY ?