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Haven't a clue
Now that is concerning, if true. We're in a deep recession, BA traffic figures are seriously down, yet T5, portrayed as the holy grail for BA's future, is full? If that is true then BA's strategy is seriously flawed.
I think not.
Capacity is there. And more is coming with T5C.
T5C will only add gates, not terminal capacity for all the passenger handling functions, which are already overloaded at many times, in particular security checks.
The combination of the extra distance of T5 from London, and the longer time taken getting through the terminal because all destinations are mixed together, must have made a considerable hit in BA's domestic carryings. We have several in our office who say that transferring to BMI on the Scotland routes now saves them half an hour or more each way to/from London.