Skipness One echo
Out of curiousity, what BA routes out of Gatwick lose money?
Ahhhh - that depends on how you count 'losing' and 'making' money? It depends upon a thousand management decisions as to what will be coutned towards the costs of the route and therefore affect it's ability to make money. If you had a few extra costs, then a route can become marginal, or even make a loss. A route may be very useful to many thousands of pax and make a small, steady profit - but that may not be enough for it to be classed as a profitable route.
flyer55
Well we all know that when T5 opens it is not going to be bigger enough to cope with LHR routes as well as LGW so LGW is here to stay !
Whether T5 is big enough will depend upon how many routes BA is operating at the time ... Who says that they will operate all of the current destinations? I agree with
Railgun.
I should state that I am not in the airline biz, just an observer and user of it. But I have worked in a very wide range of commercial enterprises.