Originally Posted by
buzzc152
Id like to know roughly how many flights a medium size airline like Virgin Atlantic flies in a typical year vs a big airline like BA. Nothing obvious on wiki.
Figures for Heathrow are pretty easy to derive: last year VS operated just over 16,000 flights and BA around 240,000 (i.e. about 15x as many).
Adding non-LHR flights (LGW, MAN, LCY, etc) would bring the totals up a bit (more pro rata for VS), but the ratio will still be at least 10:1.
Does that help ?