china crisis?
Plenty of people dismissing Chinese flights on the basis that LHR would take all the demand.
As someone who works on the ground at BHX I would invite any of the doubters to spend a couple of days counting the number of passengers (both business and leisure/education) originating from China connecting to BHX through DXB, ZRH, CDG, AMS, FRA. Even CPH and BRU are seeing connectors from that part of the world.
I'm not saying it will happen the second the extension opens but there is sufficient demand now for a 3-4 days a week service.
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