Originally Posted by WHBM
Does anyone notice a similarity between Lufthansa's turning BMI into their own feeder, and what KLM did a decade ago with Air UK ? In fact it must be good for LH in the general scheme of Star Alliance revenue attribution. GLA-LHR-SIN or GLA-LHR-JNB hands most of the revenue across to another carrier. GLA-FRA-SIN, or GLA-FRA-JNB keeps the whole lot within the Lufthansa group overall figures.
That'd be a good plan of action except for one thing - there is no service from GLA to FRA, or any other LH group hub for that matter! That's the issue here, not access to London as a destination, but one of the UK's biggest cities being practically cut off from the *A (with the exception of N America via CO/US)
In terms of LH, when you look at connectivity to LH group hubs from the UK, they only serve MAN, BHX, EDI and NCL (to DUS). Compared to KL to AMS in particular and AF to CDG, LH have pretty weak UK coverage. Even EK serve DXB from more UK regional airports than LH serve from FRA! As a result, if LH/BD want to pull connectin traffic into FRA they're going to have start a lot of new routes to the UK regions when the new runway at FRA opens.