"BA connect/cityexpress management were incompetent and the whole operation was a embarrassment on a daily basis."
And they did nothing to correct that. Heads should have rolled after the first couple of failed business plans. Instead they left the same clowns running the circus.
Or perhaps they did extremely well at winding down the regions and p
g so many people off that they left rather than closing it down several years ago and having to pay redundancies.