Originally Posted by
WHBM
It's going to be interesting to see the difference with the last time Aberdeen was served from London City, which was by Scot Airways quite some years ago, with a 31-seater Dornier where the loads were quite often down in single figures.
BA has the benefit of being able to treat LCY as part of a broader picture. So for example if ABZ-LCY is complemented by a capacity reduction on ABZ-LHR, and/or if high-yield passengers seeking connections from ABZ to AMS/FRA/ZRH/JFK etc are preferentially routed via LCY, those loads might yet make it well into double figures.
One thing that is a little puzzling is the flight number range. Two hypotheses:
(a) the simple one: BACF has just run out of numbers in its existing range
(b) the conspiracy-theory one: this is not a normal BACF route, but some sort of tie-in with a future bmi regional.
On balance I vote for (a) in the absence of any evidence to the contrary!