JSCL
LCY JFK is a very different market from say BHX/EMA ALC
Domy Dom
By and large the baby product is seen as good in the Midlands, the massive restructuring over recent years in the bmi group companies has resulted in many people leaving the company some are a sad loss others not so the problem for sites such as this is that it is full of people with an often anti ex employee attitude that because they are not part of the future, what ever that may be don't want to accept that there can be a future!
Baby in my view did that right thing in giving it's MAN/CWL employee's and customers 7 months notice of it's plans re re basing of aircraft, not a single customer will have had to re book hotels or cancel holiday plans, likewise all flight deck have a choice to stay with the company by either relocating or commuting or finding alternative employment, contrast this to say FR move from MAN with a few weeks notice
No one likes having their life turned upside down, or having to turn someone's life upside down. Baby have decided to go back to their roots ( and routes) in the Midlands BHX/EMA into BHD will make more money with two aircraft than EMA BHX CWL MAN did with four.
Baby may well revisit MAN in the future, but it won't do it with less than 6 aircraft, you need scale to make the numbers add up with airport deals when baby had 21 aircraft they should have stuck with 7 each in BHX MAN EMA , CWL MME were distractions BHD might go the same way but that's just a night stop not a base and what you spend on HOTAC you save on standby crew that would require around 6 flight deck and 10 cabin crew.
Well time for some sun in the Med