Originally Posted by
HZ123
This does not however prevent BA from setting up BALGW Ltd at some point in the future, irrespective of your NSP status. Let us hope that this course is most unlikely and LGW continues profitably. It is most likely that the ramp/ check-in would be outsourced or switched to a limited company, in the future.
It is more likely for Bush to bomb the whole Middle East and Iran than for that to happen.
With the political situation nowadays, the routes operated by Bmed are at a serious risk, and with them the airline.
You are forgetting one important part of LGW, which is our pilot force. 737 pilots are Gatwick based, while 777 pilots are London based. I do not know what would happen with them then if what you suggested became true....plus all this training for SF is costing the company money, and remember BA hasn't ever done anything just for the glory (well apart from flying the concorde maybe). LH operations out of LGW have got no revenue problems and SH was profitable and on target this year......WW might be a sadist for some but SURELY he's not a masochist....
As for GB airways, rumours in the many BA offices are that BA will terminate its franchise agreement with GB (and by the way, this could happen at any time in the future with Bmed too, because even if they wear the same uniform and offer a similar product they are not BA, sad but true) and SFLGW would start to compete directly with GB on the Spanish and other routes. Whether this is true or not we'll find out in the next year or two maybe, however it's food for thought.
FBW