booked onto QF2 from LHR with a BA shuttle from MAN
As this is presumably a BA code share, what did they offer you when your connecting service was delayed?
My point about PIK was that BA prevented anyone else setting up at PIK forced SAS and KLM out and then left the airport for dead in Spring 1982 when they left themselves.
Skipness, you get real. I was dealing with the problems generated by the attitude of BA and its predecessors long before your daddy knew what a twinkle in his eye was, let alone dreamt of you.
OK I get it. You're very old and wise. Actually you do make good points. As an aside, it is looking rather likely that the BA LGW services are soon going to be dropped or operated by flybe.