I think PIA's concern is that they are suffering significant leakage to airblue and their revamped product. This is why they are upgrading the equipment. There is no doubt that there are more than enough potential passengers on this side of the Pennines to make the service work, if they can keep hold of them.
It is a bit of a problem for them, bacause if they do "retrench to Manchester", they will lose their USP, and airblue will quite likely pick up even more.
@ planeaddict
I like your idea that they would send an aircraft over unsure as to whether it could land or not!!
Last edited by BKS Air Transport; 10th Feb 2013 at 17:02.