I've also been told this afternoon that BA are seeking to make the MAN-LHR shuttle an all A319 operation, further reducing their seat availability on the route.
In what seems to me to be a real feather in the cap of it's direct rival on the route, BA are seriously considering farming out all their interline/connecting traffic on the route to BMI, leaving their own reduced capacity on the route for what they see as the more lucrative business market.
Seems a bit of a gamble to me, as personally, when faced with paying £190 for the standard BA Shuttle product or the BMI business product with a guaranteed empty seat next to me, I'll always go for the latter.
Can Rod's repositioning of BA upmarket really be applied to a flight so short ??
I have my doubts.
