come on everyone wake up and smell the coffee. last year EI quietly slipped a few a few A319's into the fleet, at guess what airport. Nothing is on sale out of BFS except LHR past Oct. (Granted some other routes aren't but thats mainly EIR). BHD management have been dropping some rather big hints about airlines launching routes to replace WW and today the bbc, probably one of the most respected names in UK journalism is announcing EI look likely to be moving. Naturally EI will deny it at this stage, its not set for public announcement, thats what companies do. I quite agree with the comments that BE are not a charity, the belfast market is very lucrative for them otherwise they simply wouldn't be there. BFS will just as likely be offering deals as we speak to attract in carriers, loyalty has nothing to do with it. EZY were happy enough to slip over to BHD to keep FR off the LTN run and no doubt would have moved lock stock and barrel if it so suited them.