Hindsight is a wonderful thing! I'm sure the airport would have welcomed an SQ flight (First I guess). It would even be a good advert for the airport and I'm sure if they knew about it sooner they would have turned away the LTN & STN diversions and let them go to EMA. But it didn't happen and that's the price BHX has paid for a tarmac full of FR planes.
Did FR use airbridges? I thought they always used their own stairs to reduce handling charges!