…although T3 will continue to be a weak point as some flights are moving there due to lack of space in T5.

Lack of space in T5…the place has not even been open for a year, and yet already there is no more room!
Is this because the second satalite pier to T5 has not yet been constructed, or are those flights that are moving from T1 to T3 going to be permanently based there?

No doubt BA will soon be campaigning for Terminal 6 to be built?:D:diablo:

Agreeably, it is a bit of a Catch 22 scenario – BA want to streamline their business to maximise profits/reduce losses and an easy way to do that may be focusing all their long haul from one hub and drawing the passengers from the regions. However, to do this at an airport with severe capacity constraints and inferior infrastructure? Why don’t we pretend that there is more than one airport in the London area? And for the sake of argument, why don’t we say that it might be an idea that BA conducts long haul operations from more than one London airport to share the load? (I know they have/do, but I mean a true spread of services, not just a spattering) Just my opinion of course 🙂

Totally agree with you judas. They could of had a good selection of routes operating out of LGW as well as LHR, but it seems as though they chose to put all their eggs in one basket.

Also, it does make me wonder if the Open Skies deal that came into effect earlier on in the year has had much of an impact on passenger numbers travelling with BA, seeing as there is now even more choice in terms of number of flights out of LHR. I know for sure that CO are set to operate another flight to EWR due to increasing demand.

I have to agree with previous posters comments that it seemed to be a very one sided report !!

Whilst I respect that your entitled to your own opinion, I have to disagree with you and others that commented on the ‘one-sidedness’ of the reporting…BA had plenty of chances to be able to defend themselves; if they were that worried about how one-sided the program could of been reported, why didn’t Willie Walsh or someone from BA’s management offer to be interviewed by the program’s reporters or even speak out against the program before it was aired…rather than just issuing a stack of small and quite honestly feeble statements that were read-out throught the program, which attempted to answer some of the criticisms that were put forward!

The former Chief Executive, Sir Colin Marshall, was well-known for saying…’Promise what you are going to deliver; deliver what you promise’ and ‘The customer doesn’t expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong.’…I think that somewhere down the line these messages have been lost/forgotten.