Regarding the Madrid and Barcelona cuts, remember that East Midlands, Liverpool and Manchester are all expanding next year where East Midlands and Manchester will certainly get an extra aircraft, not so sure about Liverpool so there's two. Budapest has some aircraft lost as well so there's even more "freed aircraft" but they may add a few more here and there in due course and would certainly expect another base or two (or three) by the time we get to April.
Talking about the UK airports. What is going to happen with the East Midlands and Leeds/Bradford routes to Barcelona? They have already been suspended for the winter however the list of route cancelations on the Ryanair website is listing routes that were axed during the winter season as well as those that will go at the end of March (eg. Gatwick-Madrid is listed as a summer route loss however it stopped flying a few months ago). Therefore I would guess that the numbers they are saying for routes losses etc. are compared to the summer 2012, not the winter 2012/2013 season we are now in. If that is the case, because East Midlands and Leeds are now not showing in that list, does that mean we can expect them to continue flying from March onwards?