I understand what your saying prophead - to a point, but what we are looking at is solution to LHR overcrowding. MAN can provide a part solution to this, as can Birmingham too, as in the case of the above mentioned now cancelled AI. That could have easily flown from MAN, freeing up that pair of slots at LHR, and MAN handling the hundreds of pax per day that would use it, and also giving people of the north a chance to use a northern airport rather than treck to LHR / AMS / FRA or CDG. Same could be said of other routes, each one that flew from MAN/BHX would ease LHR just a little. LHR is full, MAN/BHX are not, there is demand from north of Watford, but we add to the weight placed on LHR by forcing folk through it. It just makes no sense, to me anyway.
Last edited by eggc; 19th Oct 2015 at 10:11.