They haven't advertised on tv in the Granada region for a long time and in any case this is a brand new all singing and dancing no cost spared advert. Doesn't make sense to me.
It's an ITV regional deal so we will most likely see it across many of the different regions, it's bmibaby's latest advert and again they still operate from Manchester so I don't see the problem? However even if they didn't operate from Manchester I still don't see the problem as people can still travel to another of their airports. Here in the North/East Midlands and South Yorkshire area there are many adverts dotted around the streets and on the radio about easyJet... Yet they don't fly from Doncaster or East Midlands airport's anymore????