Oh boy.
Just as BD do something useful, they get sold to BA.
Three outcomes:
- It's BD mainline, will be sold to BA, and they'll dump the route because it's not LHR-XXX
- It's BD mainline, will be sold to BA, and then won't be able to interline/codeshare with FRA-based airlines
- It's BD regional, will be sold to independent venture, who will not have a codeshare/interline agreement with any of the FRA-based airlines.
It looks like it was scheduled out of BRS at 04:30, if they wanted an 07:10 slot at FRA for inbound. Early, but good for connecting into FRA hubbed flights to the rest of Europe.