Muizenberg
BMI are so desperate to fly across the Atlantic...but WHY??
I think it's one of those contests about sitting round the big table and seeing who can throw the largest set of keys on the table ... Sir M has certainly built up the airline fantastically well but if he now abandons the regional pax from MAN, just to be able to be at the cess pit of LHR, I don't think that his customers will thank him. Can he fund extra /ac and crews to keep those routes
and operate more from LHR?
Without the third runway, there must be the risk of European slots being sacrificed to long haul? That could mean lots of yummy flights but highly limited flying connections into LHR. No good to arrive at LGW/LTN and then have to get across by land for your new flight that now goes from LHR!
However, it looks as if BA had correctly read the runes and their plan to abandon LGW will be seen to have been timely.
It is very amusing to see one part of the EU administration working diligently to have more flights to everywhere, whilst another part of the EU strives to cut back on flights.
