AerArann62W wrote
Birmingham is only stronger the Manchester now because almost half the Birmingham flight are taking the train to London thus using it as an interim London service. Manchester has been providing a nice steady load factor of 70%+ this summer some days completely full. Both routes have developed greatly since the RE days for some reason, so I don't see a reason for Manchester not to return early next year as the loads and demand are there!
Do you have a source for this or is this something you have made up yourself? The Birmingham route is doing very well. If the Manchester flight was performing as well it would be continuing throughout the winter. Also load factors are interesting but are no indiction of how a route is performing its yield that counts