So what if LHR loses 20 flights a day to CDG of transit passengers
So BA cuts all feed from Paris from long haul? Are you really throwing that one under "so what"? The laughter you hear is Air France......
The only reason I can fly to New York for such a competitve price over say Edinburgh is because London has the frequency which depends on feed from major European capitals.
For the same reason Air France still fly LHR-CDG even with Eurostar is that AF need to feed CDG long haul. You know this fine well of course.
Reality is setting in at Coalition HQ, there are no easy options and if the bills are ever to be paid in we need to remain competitve today and that is not going to be some Fantasy Island hatched by the blonde shagger currently plotting in City Hall to become PM.