Just my humble observations about this saga and the nummerous theories on this forum.
Has what seemed like a fine vision for Aer Lingus gone radically pete tong here??
Come on down to BHD and, who knows, you might just have the whole Heathrow route, cos BA won't be bothered with Belfast again, put on a few shiny sun routes now that bmib have 'proven' the BHD market at £19 a pop and, oh, go on then, stick on a few Gatwicks and Manchesters and we'll turn a blind ear to Flybe and the last 30 odd years - all for the greater glory, of course...
O wait, Willy's here to announce that BA are back in a big way to stay and presumably don't want to hand over LHR-BHD to Aer L, the touchpaper is lit under BE, and EZY, jET2 are mopping up services at BFS while EI fiddle.
Soooo....what's left? BFS-LHR, for sure, for the proportion of people who want to use BFS to go to LHR, which has not been insignificant on a fairly basic EI schedule (esp if AL were to mop up connxions for all non BA / OW airlines), the option to fly anywhere they like in Europe of thier choosing and maybe RE to do some Cwl, EMA, BOH, ABN sorts from BFS.
OR they could move the planes to BCA.
