I guess the owner of VLM sold the outfit just at the right time to Air France. Because of improved rail links, almost all of VLM's traditional destinations served from LCY are coming increasingly under threat. LPL has already diappeared, MAN is shrinking from its former heyday of 10 or so flights, as is Brussels which is now down to a token twice-daily service. The next destinations that probably will feel the pinch of the Eurostar will be ANR and RTM.