BDLBOS you say "forget BA" and then "make MAN a hub". Who would your hub carrier be? A real hub has one operator with critical mass feeding long haul from short haul, the flybe feeding Etihad model is small beer by comparison. R3 is needed at LHR as that's where the market wants to use. Expanding MAN into a hub with no based carrier to support such a hub would replicate the mistake that saws London's new airport for the 21st century given away to Ryanair to use for pennies. If you misread the dynamics of the market, kiss goodbye to your investment. Rather than a hub, MAN is a spoke from the hubs of others, and a very succesful one too.
Good debate though.
Last edited by Skipness One Echo; 7th Jan 2015 at 07:56.