Originally Posted by
Plane.Silly
So wouldn't this provide an opportunity if BA take over to concentrate BE solely on the UK domestic market. They could get BE to operate these routes for them instead, freeing up their own metal for other, more lucrative routes
Maybe they could operate LBA-LHR or a couple of the Cityflyer routes out of LCY but the general consensus seems to be that you can't make money at Heathrow with small planes. All of BA's LHR/LGW domestic routes are operated using A319/320/321s which have between 143 and 218 seats. FlyBe's biggest plane seats 118 people but the bulk of the fleet are the 78 seat Q400s. Swapping over would mean a big drop in passengers but would not free up any slots at LHR for BA to fly to new destinations.