ATNOTTS,
Sorry Andrew missed covering United.
They seem to do well 10 months of the year on it. I think the 757s might have another 4 to 5 years left on such routes, what do you think ?.
However the bigger worry would be other UK airports.
If MAN,EDI etc get upgraded to 767 or 787 to EWR and they pull the 757s off LHR too would they want to keep just BHX in the UK as a 757 route, I don't know ?
If they don't then its a big step up in premium seats for BHX front end on a 767 or 787.
Hopefully BHX will have grown its yield and be able to absorb the larger plane otherwise we might loose it.
Nigel