I know it's possible, the key point being is going against your own pilots for a few borderline long haul routes worth it? It would be seen as an attack future career prospects and imposition whilst possible, would, in my view end in industrial action. All for one MAN-JFK or ORD? I don't see it as worth the candle and nothing WW or the board have said would suggest otherwise.
A small base with ER7/ER9s on the CFE AOC might be possible but again there's the competitive disadvantage of having no feed at either end without the bankers with more money than sense that support LCY doing this.
I'm all for our National Carrier joining the Mancunian party as long as they
1) That's a misleading term as we haven't had a "national carrier" since privatisation in 1987.
2) You say that as if BA didn't operate a domestic shuttle operation at all from MAN.
