Skipness,
You must have a vested interest in BA by the sounds of things, and the arguements will trundle on.
The "BA don't make money excuse" on regional flying has had the ar*e ripped out of it.
We all know they didn't because they never invetsed in a decent product and let it be managed by a decent management team who knew the regions.
Not some useless piece of dead wood from Waterside or BA Regional ( Mr Evans and Co ).
In the grand scheme of things a couple of different paint jobs wouldn't have made a huge difference....shows BA's management are on the ball with important issues concerning them.