Originally Posted by
Aero Mad
I don't know the figures, but I'd guess that domestic connecting traffic pays vastly better for BA than point-to-point - they wouldn't bother wasting slots at LHR on A319s if it didn't.
This is a moot point. A Scottish customer of mine came down to London on a day return trip one morning and, by chance, was on the same BA flight as one of his staff off on holiday to Miami, connecting at LHR. The simple domestic flight ticket was well over half the total amount his colleague was paying for the entire round trip connecting on to Miami and back home.
It then all depends on how the revenue attribution is done on connections, and that depends on how the accountant wants to do the arithmetic (and, to some extent, on the relative strengths of the different commercial managers when discussing how to do the split). But the domestic doesn't get much of the total share with a long-haul. If it weren't for the point-to-points it just wouldn't be worth running the service.