The winter sees a large reduction in our offerings and consists of none of the routes which you have mentioned from MAN (ALC/AGP etc) precisely because they weren't going to be worthwhile operating.
Not worthwhile??? Johnny, it was worthwhile purely for the 4 hour turnaround in AGP. Lunch in the sun in Torremolinos in the midst of the British winter
As for the thread subject
Get out more! Now what's this I hear about BA, Emirates and American going bust .......... oooh best go and start a new post