Iberia - am I being too cynical?
Is it too cynical to suggest that IAG would rather have people from GLA and MAN connect to flights via LHR than MAD and perhaps that is why the flights have been cancelled? Do LHR and MAD offer connections to entirely different markets so that there is no overlap i.e. is traffic going to instead of going to LHR?
GLA (at 2 per week) always seemed a half-hearted attempt to get into the MAD market. MAN was, of course, better at daily (I think) but surely multi-daily services from both airports were really needed to make use of the connections at MAD?
Just a thought. Perhaps that's why there was also never any BHX-MAD service: IAG would prefer customers to journey down to LHR themselves.
I also find it curious that BA themselves (through CitiExpress and BACON) maintained a BHX-MAD link for some years but now there seems to be no market for anyone to give it a go?
Scott