as soon as a fast train link is available between manchester and heathrow/gatwick i am sure BA will dump the shuttles without delay.still feeds the connecting traffic to longhaul routes and appeases the enviromental campaigners by greatly reducing the number of UK internal flights.the sooner we get a fast train link to heathrow T5 the better.as a regular user of T5,i must say it is now a delight to travel through.it leaves every other terminal in the Uk way,way behind.and before you say it,the flights arrive and depart pretty much ontime and my luggage has always arrived and pretty quickly as well.