Mickeyman it's not my hub, I don't work for BA. It's in the control of a non democratic Arab state which has the power to squash the competition and work with a cost base a fraction of it's legacy rivals. The Gulf carriers have focusses on Manchester and the UK for very particular cultural and political reasons much of which has little to do with commercial profit and loss. It's swapping one non level playing field for another and being impressed because one serves MAN with medium to heavy aircraft three times a day versus legacy on smaller equipment on multiple dailes. They're not all that different, the gulf boys have bigger........planes.
The B787 point I was making was on legacy point to point, the "next big thing" as it were. Adding new routes on a p2p from MAN.
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