I too had to chuckle at the reports in the times and WW's assertion that servces out of Regional Airports operated by BA Connect would be operating normally. He conveniently forgot to mention that he was selling this ("Basket Case Operation with no strategic importance to BA") by the end of the week. - (Correction, - giving it away!).
I don't know how WW and the BA board defines strategic importance, but I would guess that carying more BA customers than the rest of BA next week means that it might be worthy of an upgrade from "basket Case". It wasn't until BA and DE screwed it up.
PS, I have to admit to breaking SOP's and reading the Times article on the flight deck. I comitted this "crime" on the basis that WW only seems to communicate with his workforce through the press. I treat the business section of the times as an internal company memo. Without it, we would be completely in the dark.
But then maybe that's what he wants.
