Mis-information
I am not qualified to comment on what has gone wrong at Terminal 5 - I just plan to avoid going there or flying BA, and I will continue to use BMI's new services to LAS and Silverjet to Newark for two currently planned trips to the USA and the excellent service via AMS from my local airport for other long haul flights. However, you would have thought that this far into the crisis of confidence BA would be getting the information on their web site right. They are saying today:
All longhaul flights from Terminal 5 will operate as planned.
Take a more detailed look at the list of cancellations from T5 and they include:
BA279 to LAX at 1005
BA169 to PVG at 1605
Since when have either of these been short-haul destinations?
They are also cancelling three US flights from T4 - presumably as a "knock-on" from the problems in T5 - and these are the premier routes where competition is going to become very intense with the new open skies agreement - another triumph for BA management?
JB