Gayfriendly,
Re Monarch and MAG,
You seem to forget MAN has lost the A300s thats one hell of a lot of seats to make up, so you will need double that number of new based A320s needed just to make up for that let alone increases in passengers.
Secondly we will have to see if the muted increases are actually that or in fact charters turning into sched flights.
Anyway as this is supposed to be a BHX thread can we get back to Birmingham issues folks !
Nigel