Maybe it is time for people to realise BA is restricted by LHR
But it was surely BA's choice to make Heathrow their only major international hub airport and to heavily pull out of Gatwick and never bother with Stansted and/or Luton in the first place, despite their obvious long term potential.
Surely Easyjet's success in running out of three different London airports and BA's decision to shun the growth of any lower cost short haul routes on the basis that their cost base was far too bloated to ever operate efficiently in that sector shows that it is BA who has chosen to make its corporate fate inextricably linked to the state of Heathrow?
BAA has had a cock up at T5 but because it also operates the rest of Heathrow and Stansted and Gatwick too (both of which are going from strength to strength) the incident has not left it irretrievably holed below the waterline. Unless of course recent events persuade the government to let the Competition Commission break up its monopoly control of the majority of UK airport capacity (especially in London).