flapsfulretard
I didn't suggest the 330s should be on the GLA. Perhaps you are too young to remember the truly awful shuttle before BMA joined in!
What I was trying to say was that in order to attack any transatlantic market, a better product than the opposition must be in place. Hence, whilst LHR is in turmoil, it would be difficult and I am sure that SMB will not act on such a fundemental expansion until BAA gets it's sh*t together.
BA were obliged to react to BMA in the early eighties and they did, but not before BMA had their feet well and truly under the table on these routes.
I agree with you about airlines being in business for so long and nearly forty of these years has been with Bishop at the helm!