BA have no interest in the regions other than to feed to London, the shuttles do not make money as many of the passengers are only using as an add on to their
flights ex LHR/LGW.The fares charged on the shuttles do not reflect the real cost to operate the route as they are trying to get pax to use them rather than travelling with other operators either direct from MAN or via other hubs, they are in fact a loss leader in effect
What I must do is check fares from LHR and from MAN via LHR and see if there is a difference in favour of MAN just to get to travel via LHR but too busy at present
so it will have to wait
Ian