JPT
JPT yr not entirely correct re the MAN-BER.
BA & then BA connect operated the route quite successfully to TXL twice a day with E145s.
Unfortunatley, Air Berlin moved in with a B738 (downgraded to a FK100) to TXL & also at the same time Jet2 launched a B733 to SXF.
So we ended up with 4 flights a day on some days. This killed it for everyone.
That was totaly unsustainable, so it ended up with all of them pulling out.
EZY have the North West market now on LPL-SXF, I don't see any change to that situation.
MAN had the route & lost it, but thats what happens in the free market.