The truth of the matter is that the dust will settle; Joe Public will calm down; normal mundane life will return at LHR and this weeks news will be next weeks fish and chips papers.
That's the British way.
As for BA. Time has proved again and again that their brand is bomb proof and this will turn out to be just another example.
As an aside, where did WW get his Operations Director from ? Strewth, like myself, I'm sure most viewers thought "no wonder" when we watched his juvenile, inept, turn and leg it performance on the Beeb on Thursday night.
As someone else has previously eluded too, it would have been a different day had a certain "proud to be British" BA predecessor been pacing the gleaming new floors with his braces and Union Jack tie.