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Old 3rd Jan 2011, 13:50
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jpthomas72
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Manchester to Berlin
You've put the same into the Easyjet thread with different destinations.
Well, the sane answer to your illusionary request is: There is no market for MAN-BER or BHX-BER ! Both have been tried by Jet2 and BAConnect a few years ago respectively and failed with poor loads. The little demand is served well by FR with EMA-SXF (EMA of course owned by MAN). LH has hourly flights to TXL from both FRA and MUC, so connections must be easy. Us at BHX use EMA or LTN or can do BE BHX-HAJ then train, which is not much slower really. Around MAN, people use LPL-SXF on EZY. BER is obviously in Germany so they have the new extra tax making it even less interesting. This might even put EMA-SXF under threat (no summer timetable yet, last bookable is 26th March). Don't get me started on the economic weakness of the BER catchment area, it's seriously less wealthy than e.g. DUS or MUC, and airlines know this. Until BER-proper (Willi-Brandt-Airport at Schoenefeld) is operational in fall 2012, also not much use for long-haul connections. Note also while you might be interested in Berlin, Berliners are in general not interested in Central England, for them UK is London (and maybe Edinburgh). For now, we hope that WW's EMA-CGN/MUC at least survive which is far from guaranteed. Airlines are businesses, not charities...