Some of the posts above go on about BA using Open Skies to expand their business at the expense of LHR and therefore limit opportunities for mainline. What expansion possibilities are they at LHR?
You're correct in your assertion that there isn't much scope for expansion at LHR at the moment. However, if some parts of the LHR operation end up being moved to Europe ergo room for expansion at LHR.
None of the BA pilots want to prevent BA from expanding their business. Far from it in fact, we want to be fully involved - just like the Lufthansa pilots are with their subsidiary operations. What we want to ensure is that this expansion doesn't happen at the expense of BA pilots.