CONGRATULATIONS to British Airways management team on it's now complete destruction of a once small hub operation.
If I am not mistaken Manchester has now becomes one of the busiest airports in Europe without any international routes flown by a former national airline of that country.
To me it feels that BA's management has wanted to get to the present route situation for years and has systematically being pulling apart the base it once had here. For a number of years it has felt that wrong decisions were being made and that hardly any effort or investment was being made to change the situation around. When you consider the small amounts of investment the regional operations of BHX and MAN have received over the years it is really no surprise that we have ended up where we are today.
The sale of BA connect to Flybe even seemed to other opportunities that were not grasped it could have retained some of it's cabin crew and used the small team for the JFK service and come to aggrements with the unions to take over the crewing of night stopping shuttle flights.
Many airlines use Boeing 757 across the Atlantic, two could well have taken over from the B767. This would have offered a greater flexibility to the travelling public, deals with Flybe to feed these flights from around the UK as code shares would have helped fill the extra daily flight.