I've never quite understood the mentality of people who decry BA for rationalising and retreating to their most profitable hub, and then have a go at the name.
Does anyone really care what they're called?
and Gonzo's profile says LHR which says it all really. Tell you what, sometime watch the
British Broadcasting Corporation weather forecast and see if they spend 2 minutes describing conditions in assorted parts of Northern Scotland, and then with a dismissive wave of the hand "and fair weather in the rest of the country, byee"
it is awful having to hack down to London for a trip to someplace else in the world. Generally the total travel time is doubled, and the cost is nearly doubled. Eg it'll be £120 pound to get from Leeds to LHR via GNER and underground, and the fare to New York is £260 thereabouts. Plus you'll start at say 10am and be at LHR at say 4pm but couldn't safe book a flight before 8pm really for a flight time of 8 hours to New York!
But you couldn't get me out of the Yorkshire Dales to nasty SE England for love money or a whippet!
Anyway, this is way off topic..
S