Buyers market
Track record of UK Independents or 'second force' carriers as they were once known, on Manchester -London routes.
BCAL (Gatwick) - bought out by BA in 1988
Dan Air ( Heathrow and Gatwick) - bought out by BA in 1991
bmi (Heathrow) - bought out by BA in 2012
Virgin Atlantic (Heathrow) - ??