.......So Ba Connect was the sprat to catch the mackrel then?
ie. to obliterate expensive BA in the regions and, in the process, destroy itself as it shrank taking with it Regional BA into oblivion.
That is an attractive theory. It would require cunning, perceptive and extremely adept management.
I favour the Cockup rather than conspiracy theory. What evidence is there that these guys could organise a drinking session in a brewery let alone anything as devilishly cunning as that???