Yes , there was a full season, and it did well , but US airways joined the star alliance and were ordered to join the cartel operating out of London.
What a load of old tosh ! Exactly
who "ordered" them to join this mysterious cartel operating out of Heathrow ?
Had BHX been profitable for them, they would have happily operated from BHX, LHR and MAN.
There was nothing more sinister to their decision to pull BHX, other than the fact BHX was so low yielding that even their smallest transatlantic equipment, the B757, couldn't generate sufficient revenue for it to be profitable.
It is a classic example of how BHX gets continually squeezed these days by LHR to the south, and by MAN to the north.