"compete with the orange men"......."return to the good old days"
No disrespect, but do you seriously think BACX can compete with the "orange men" given the number of cancellations this year (about 1,000 at MAN and BHX to date)?
Apart from which your role within BA is to feed passengers into the company from routes that it would not otherwise fly.
As to the "cost" of BAR I would not take any figures from a BA manager at face value. Tim and his mates are past masters at distorting the numbers to suit their case.
In a few weeks from now your management will dump on the Jetstream by sending them off to Eastern. No doubt they will cover up their own mismanagement by making some spurious claim about cost/yield etc etc.
What exactly were the good old days? Regards BP