Terminal6???????
Of course if you were really cynical!!!!!!Is this just a ruse to force through a third runway at LHR?Think about it?BA vacates Terminal 1 and its main establishment Terminal 4.Other Airlines snap up the spaces and the all important slots.Terminal 5 departures then are totally blocked on taxiways to the northern runways.When flying the Shuttle, Lon-Edi-Gla-Lon,albeit several years ago,it was our Airline SOP to ask for pushback as soon as the Pax had boarded,so we could jump the queue.We automatically then also jumped the queue for the tug.By the time our tug arrived we were hopefully all shut up and the Cabin briefings underway.This was deliberately done by other Airlines as well,to block BA,especially out of GLA,when you had to give an estimate to Deans Cross.As for Terminal 5 departures,it will be all too easy to do exactly the same,but worse.On European routes,Lufthansa used to do this regularly,even with other crews complaining they were still boarding when they called for push and start!!!All in a days work-you might think childish-but when competing for Pax,my Pax would be out and racing for Hatton Cross tube,before the BA 757 was on stand.BA asks for all it gets in my humble opinion.