MANCHESTER - 6

[TartinTon]

TBirdFrank...sounds like you're in denial like most at MAN/BHX/Gla/Edi etc etc..there is only a limited amount of people who will pay the required yields to support longhaul ex regions and they just aren't enough. Load factor means nothing. The only thing that matters is revenue or, more accurately, contribution. People criticize BA for funnelling people through LHR and then praise KL/AF/LH/EK for funnelling through their hubs at AMS/CDG/FRA/MUC/DXB when they are actually doing exactly the same thing as BA but not through London (God forbid). How dumb is that? The bottom line is that there is not enough point-to-point traffic to sustain longhaul ex-MAN but foreign carriers are actually better placed to sustain longhaul as they are feeding into THEIR hubs as well as servicing the limited point-to-point market. That's why they can make it work and BA can't. Rocket science it ain't.