Turin I don't believe BA expanded MAN whilst plotting a pull out simultaneously were they? Thats the point I was getting at.
My tongue was firmly in cheek.
And the Af/KL/BE rumour? Do you mean taking over Regional, Brit Air and CityHopper?
No, all I heard was that after AF moved to T3 FlyBe took over some of their daily flights as AF have reduced theirs. The ultimate aim is for Flybe to operate all the current AF routes into UK regional airports (under I assume a codeshare agreement). The logical conclusion would be that Flybe would eventually take over the same with regard to KLM.
It's just rumour and speculation from a bunch of airport workers but, who knows, there maybe some truth in it. Stranger things have happened.