I had a flash of the obvious today.Given BA have bought BMI and all the planning for Terminal 2 as exclusive for STAR had the whole BMI operation in there, might we see BA take that up instead allowing short haul to use the best facilities at LHR in T2 and T5?
Leave QANTAS and the JSA Australia long haul in T3 with Oneworld and move the small BA short haul operation into the new T2 with BMI?
Otherwise there's no way STAR will fill the new T2 as all planning would have been done with a based fleet of BMI airbuses in situ to fill the gates and manage passenger flows. Retail contracts would have been signed with this in mind like T5 was.
Win win for BA, as STAR no longer have an exclusive facility at BA's home base and BA can enjoy facilities on a par with T5.
A virtual Mars bar to the first person to tell me what time the B787 is supposed to be leaving please? Cheers !
Incidentally, the old Tower is coming down as part of the redevelopment of the CTA.