bucket and space flights
Obviously that was meant to read bucket and spade! Thought I'd better make that clear before planeaddict gets carried away and starts posting about Virgin Gallactic flying from BHX!
Am sure there are thousands of other similar examples to more obvious destinations like MAD, LIS etc that other UK airports happily manage to maintain services to.
Same thing happened to me; much cheaper and quicker to fly MAN-PSA direct with Jet2 than going from BHX via CDG or MUC.