The real things they need to be looking at are the ratios of premium pax, and protecting and differentiating that from rivals.
Yeah, what would be best for us long suffering passengers in general would be for BA to quit whining and bite the bullet and downsize to a premium only airline. This would get them out of the low end market which they hardly like being in and are obviously incapable of competing in anymore and release a large number of LHR slots for new airlines to take advantage of. Low end passenger gets the loco service which they want and which there is obviously a huge market for. Suspect with BA out of the way the economy class market would be less distorted and new entrants would be more likely to take the punt on setting up long haul loco service. End result superior service and choice for both the business passenger and the economy passenger, and that is what this forum is about, innit?
It will never happen willingly as they want the slots. Lose the slots to effective competition and they are well and truly up the creek.