MUFC_fan,
With all due respect, your post appears to be rather disingenuous. Your '30 odd million' statistic is misleading as a response to groobs' posting because you are not comparing like with like.
31,825,000 is the number of passengers reported to have been carried by BA in the 12 month period to March 2010. A large number of these passengers were traveling to or from London as their point of origin or final destination; connection issues at LHR are not of concern to these customers. A price differential for alternative flights from MAN is of no interest to the vast majority of these people either.
Moving on to connecting passengers who change aircraft at LHR, many of these are on international transits and are unaffected by the reliability issues affecting BA's Shuttle operations in particular. So, if you wish to contrast groobs' booking decision with other customers on a meaningful basis, you need to compare with the numbers who connect to / from BA's domestic shuttle operations. And arguably, you should be using only the number who use the MAN Shuttles to make your case, as groobs is comparing prices for flights from Manchester.
Let's tackle this subject on a more analytical level and avoid use of eye-catching but inapplicable statistics and hyperbole, eh?
All the best. SHED.
Last edited by Shed-on-a-Pole; 23rd Jan 2011 at 16:40.