I'm not going to loose faith Carn. If I was FR, I wouldn't want to had BE a well developed customer base on a silver plate either... so makes sense that they ditched the EMA idea, after all that move made no sense at all!
I would start being concerned about the MAN route if no announcement was made by mid August, but I think we will hear something soon.
Looking forward to using the BE service for the first time, this day fortnight. Has anyone else actually used it yet? If not... shame on you.