Great news they are bringing back HHN-MAN ! Not yet bookable, but they used to have the excellent Sunday 6pm departure back to the UK. Good news also for HHN which had various route cuts over the past year (and local politics trouble).
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Maybe that was another reason why BE gave up on FRA-MAN, they should have access to MAN slot applications.
Same might be true for EZY starting-up SXF-MAN. SXF and FKB the only biggish FR places in Germany not to get a MAN route. Also they've then effectively moved TLL from EMA to MAN. Sounds sensible, though yes, I'd also think RIX and KUN would have been good ideas. KUN is already served from LPL, and RIX from EMA.
So, MOL, the German Airtax silently forgotten about, with HHN, NRN, FMM, BRE getting MAN routes :-)
Well, what to say from a BHX perspective. Not good news for BHX.