MANCHESTER AIRPORT is to gain two new routes from bmibaby this winter. The East Midlands-based airline is to take on the national airlines with daily services to both Barcelona and Prague starting on 1 October. It is also doubling its frequency to Cork at the same time. Contrary to remarks in last week”s ABTN Hapag-Lloyd Express is not to drop its twice-daily service from Manchester to Cologne but has now confirmed that Luton ” Cologne will cease from the end of June, the airline citing competition from German Wings at Stansted and both British Airways and Lufthansa at Heathrow. http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk