BA are doing a cracking job of cocking everything up this month aren't they. Sorry I shouldn't say BA, i mean WW.
Do you really think that carrying on business as a handling agent for one of your own franchisees at one of your own main bases is a core business interest for BA?
Perhaps the BA loaders at LGW who have been determined to carry on in their good old fashioned 'comfy' ways have left it rather too late to wake up and smell the coffee? If your costs are too high the customer will buy elsewhere.... Aviance in this case.
BA and GB will divorce very soon. GB is a liability to BA and on the other side GB is fed up with being told by BA what routes it may fly and those it may not. There is no benefit left in the marriage for either party.
Some of GB's routes are operated using BA route licences that go back to BEA times. I don't see BA giving those up for one moment. GB clearly thinks it can go it alone with it's remaining route portfolio and the core holiday company business.
Only time will tell.