Originally Posted by
PAXboy
the demand of regional feeds to LHR for transit have all but gone. .
Well surely that's not right at all? If you mean that Scotland-Europe can now fly direct yes, in summer that's true.
However for frequency and connectivity then BA offers a one stop to loads of place in the same way LH,KL, AF and LX do over their own hubs. And regional feed to long haul is still clearly important, there would be no connection to MAN if the LHR hub model was as far gone as you suggest. And think of the inbound $ benefits that INV sees from a one stop to BA's worldwide network alongside KLM.
What has happened is that the ME3 have a better and more frequent offering going East that BA cannot compete with, but that's competition.