certainly not Virginholidays to JFK via LHR
Soooooo what you're saying is, you would like Virgin Little red to fail?
As anyone flying to MIA, LAX, BOS, SFO, BOM, DEL, JNB, CPT, NRT etc ought to be flying from MAN and connecting abroad? I'm baffled now. You can get a better deal flying MAN-abc-JFK rather than pay the direct premium and flying MAN-JFK on the AA211. MAN still gets the passengers you know.
Some of the fares to EWR, JFK and DXB are way better over LHR with VS than with UA, AA and EK. This is becasuse of the high volume of onward connections can actually make it prohibitively expensive to fly a fraction of the way.
Airline economics are nuts!