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The threat of taking away LHR slots won't work, if they took away slots BA would need less employees to fly them, so it would only cause more damage, and that taking away slots might not be possible anyway.
The loss of slots would hit BA very hard. If the plan is to pull out of LGW and retreat into fortress Heathrow then that is where the previous LGW flights that they want to retain would go, using slots from unprofitable flights from LHR. Over time a migration back to LGW could begin using crews based at LHR on miserly pay and conditions, with outsourced ground support and a relatively low cost base. What BA do not want is to lose LHR slots to their major competitors, knowing that once gone it would be unlikely that they would ever return.