Given that whenever I looked at booking BRS-BRE/HAM it cost about £700 return, I had rather assumed the shift towards making it appear to be a scheduled passenger service had something to do with reducing tax liabilities rather than attempting to run a viable commercial aircraft service.
I know I harp on about this, but Germany has a population of 89m people, it's one of our largest trading partners in the EU, and there is a large ex-pat German community in Bristol. So why on earth can't it sustain a scheduled airline service on an aligned carrier?
I wrote to Hr. Prock-Schauer at bmi a few weeks ago, noting their publicised strategic shift to serving LH hubs from British airports, and inviting him to base one of their aircraft at Bristol. (I even wrote in my bestest German so it couldn't get fobbed off to the usual customer service team).