Re: BACitiExpress The final solution!
Hey Jenks, that's not quite accurate! The Airlines of Britain Group used to comprise, BM, Loganair, London City Airlines and Manx. London City couldn't make money, and was closed. (Ahead of its time really!) Loganair was chosen to expand, but couldn't, and the emphasis was placed by Bish on expanding via Manx Airlines, a highly successful regional venture. This was built all on the back of a highly profitable IOM - LHR route, using slots acquired from BM. The profits built and built, and enabled develoment of a whole tranche of routes, even using the horrible J41s only there because of the ineptitude of Loganair (goes back to 146s in fact, but that's a long story!) Anyway, Manx then formed BRAL, which cut a deal with BA to operate unprofitable BAR routes, 9bit of a theme here!) and made even more money from BA since these were not straight franchises, but earned a minimum seating guarantee from BA. Now, Ayling screwed up, and his successor decided to expand. For geopolitical reasons, involving various American airlines, BA needed more LHR slots, so to acquire the six daily Manx slots, they bought the newly floated Company for a song. They are thus relatively unconcerned with the Company's performance, since that wasn't the idea of the purchase in the first place.
Where we go from here though - let's just hope it all works; though I echo the concerns of many, not just the equipment but the leadership - HOW THE F#CK does Evans keep his job???