Must confess I just cant see BHX competing for all the bravado coming from management. Airlines are polarising on MAN and LHR.
Manchester is an hour to North and Luton /Heathrow an hour to South.
If you lived in say Wolverhampton or Stafford and had a flight check in at sat 9am would you really sit on the M6 for an hour +...much easier to head North !
Rumours suggest EK they are putting another A380 in on the evening flight that will suck even more traffic away.......as ETIHAD and QTR respond !
I am more inclined to think EK would put the second BHX into MAN. Two flights with lowish yields then switch to one flight that becomes a high earner !