BHX hub?
Actually BA and VS are right: never say "never", but BHX won't become a hub anytime soon. By creating a hub at a particular airport, it is the airlines who decide which airports become hubs, not airport managements.
No airlines are falling over themselves to create a hub at BHX at present.
That's not to say there's anything wrong with BHX, the same is not happening at other UK airports or at equivelant airports in comparable European countries.
All the carriers mentioned above, AF, EK, KL, LH, TK, etc., do what they all do, feed their respective hubs.
The criticism of BA and VS (if there is any) therefore should be that they are not doing this, as there are no longer flights between LHR and BHX.
If there's money to be made, UK carriers will do longhaul from BHX (or anywhere else for that matter). Years ago, BA and its predecessor BOAC, did trans Atlantic from BHX. They really can't be expected to run loss-making services!
Last edited by Fairdealfrank; 26th Nov 2012 at 21:29.