West Lakes - I believe you work for BA, so not exactly impartial.
Having checked Piton's comments about the schedule (using BA.com), it does seem to be fair comment pro tem.
As to the crews, you have to be there to judge.
Conclusion, 2.25 time saving is worthwhile, so thank you Piton for sharing your experience with the community.
Piton - take no notice of Abusing the Sky, she works for Ryanair, where customer service is pretty low down the priority scale, in fact 2 hours extra flying time = plenty of scratch card and bar sales, so she does not apparently understand the problem.
It is clear to me.
Thankfully, Ryanair don't fly big aeroplanes on grown up routes.