Originally Posted by
laviation
BA Caribbean flights. The hideous trek down to Gatwick on M6, M40, M25, M23 et cetera puts many off. Trains can be very unreliable especially shown in these last 9-10 months of strikes. I think a Gatwick route would be 90% connections anyway. Probably if BA get some of those Max aircraft they may give it another go.
Classic problem always was the revenue on flights with so many connections used to get
allocated to long haul and the short haul business saw a loss as a result. It'd be no more than one LGW-MAN-LGW per day to feed as much of the long haul arrivals as possible BUT crucially the B777 fleet turns and starts departing from 10am when there's still 2-3 inbounds due or just landed. It's currently not even possible to feed the existing smallish long haul program with one daily flight. It's not gonna happen, the reborn operation died a quick death recently.