Airline franchising question

[Max Tow]

Brabazon

As a slight aside (and I think the crews will be well relieved that it was so), CityFlyer was merged into BA and not CitiExpress.
The latter problem child was an amalgam of Brymon,BRAL & BAR but did get the surplus ex CFE fleet of Avros.
I think you'll find BA has little interest in expanding franchising in the UK (except perhaps as a way of getting out of CitiExpress in due course?). Like the GO experiment, franchising as practised by BA (especially of the ex mainline routes) was a convenient way of avoiding the reality that BA had to do something about its own costs, and came to an embarrassing end when BA had to pay hefty sums to buy back what was arguably its own branded business.