FlyBe is pulling out of LGW completely due to the high cost of operating smaller aircraft types out of there. Any other carrier considering MAN-LGW with similar sized equipment would face the same problem, even if they could acquire runway slots at viable times. UK domestic flights are also suffering from high exposure to APD with passengers paying twice on return flights. Tax has become a very high proportion of a domestic airfare which of course is intentional, as politicians wish to be seen as sympathetic to the eco-extremist global warming agenda. Tough times for domestic air services, and part of the reason that FlyBe's new CEO has identified diversification away from UK domestic as a priority.