Some interesting points here.
As an aviation freak, I’d be disappointed if I got changed onto a 757 trans-pond rather than an A330.
However, most passengers aren’t aviation fans.
Those disappointed will likely be regular BMI long haul travellers who are used to the product. Your average ad-hoc business traveller and leisure traveller might not actually mind that much because they don’t travel BMI long haul that often and don’t have the comparison to make. The fact remains that BMI are the only airline offering direct services to Washington from Manchester and the North of England; a high proportion of people would still rather travel direct from Manchester on a 757, than go to London and have the hassle of transfers, Heathrow etc just to get a wider cabin and a PTV.
There will be disappointment, but, if that is kept to a few people, then there is no reason why a 757 on this route cannot be sucess.
And as Sandy says, you have to trust the management and hope that they know what they’re doing. The proof isn’t in what ‘we’ think, its what the general public think and a good proportion of them really won’t mind that much that they’d book elsewhere.
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