Originally Posted by
Skipness One Foxtrot
Which to state the obvious, will be the very day the flag carrier of Pakistan returns to market and what traffic BA currently had, reverts to tribal loyalties! Am not arguing for the sake of arguing, it's not as if this hasn't happened before!
I’d say it’s more likely to be the very day that Virgin comes off the route (which may well be the day that PIA returns). BA’s obsession with home grown competitors will keep their hat in that particular ring. However the fact they’re willing to move it to LGW just to keep the route on the highest density aircraft shows how little interest BA have in ISB and how poor the yields are. Made even worse now of course by the closure of more direct routings through Afghanistan and now Russia.
MAN-LGW will remain as long as Virgin offer MAN-ISB, unless it miraculously generates a load of MAN-LGW-Carib/FL demand. A shame really, especially as “direct” trains from Gatwick to Manchester have since ceased too.