Mate - you weren't trying to fly into Thiefrow yesterday, were you?
I flew BRE-FRA, then FRA-BHX yesterday with Lufthansa. Snagless!
The Heathrow saga is down to over-reliance on running close to capacity all the time. So when LVPs are enforced, the whole thing goes pear-shaped. Which is bad news for ba as it's their main base. Of course they really want to bin shorthaul and go back to being Imperial Airways, it seems.....
40 years ago a BEA Trident made the first commercial automatic landing in 50 metres of fog when nothing else could get in. But BEA became ba (shorthaul) and has sucked the hind tit ever since - the longhaul Atlantic Barons perceiving them as being somewhat inferior.