Stop being so bloody chippy !
I was agreeing with you that it's a shame but as the legacy airlines move to hub and focus city operations this sort of thing happens.
My concern would identifying why what were historically MAN's strongest supporters are way less committed to the airport. First American drops the daily ORD to 5 a week for the winter ( has this ever happened in 20 years of ops?)and now Singapore drops frequency as well.
It's NOT as if there is a MASSIVE amount of long haul competition at MAN, there's a damn good choice but it ain't saturation point. As to the reductions at LHR, a B744 to a B77W isn't really a massive drop and when factored in to the A380 capacity, it makes sense.
Last edited by Skipness One Echo; 19th Feb 2009 at 23:52.