Its quite amazing how this thread about the proposed grounding of BA aircraft due to a fuel crisis has virtually degenerated virtually into a discussion about the oil company's, pricing, global resources and extraction technologies. Absolutely great for the National Geographic Channel but really out on a total tangent to the real purpose of this thread.
The first valid & specifically relevant point that has actually been raised seems to me to be that by
Just a spotter who has raised the once very topical issue of slots at LHR, in that if BA aren't going to use them then how are they to protect them, based on smaller fleet presumably means less flights or can additional utilisation of remaining fleet cover for those aircraft laid up?
In addition then are these 'mothballed' aircraft going to remain at LHR, be dispersed at other UK sites, or indeed sent to Arizona? If the latter then does one really expect to realistically see them all return to BA service?