Aer Lingus move
Some of you have far too much faith in BBC Journalism.
Most of the articles on air travel are gleaned from this very forum.
Aer Lingus is sadly in big trouble.
BA want their business back and easyjet is in a rare expansionist mood at BFS.
Willy Walsh has made it all very clear. BA want to operate BA metal, not codeshare, and they want connecting passengers to fill their new long-haul services. Which is why BHD-LHR will move to T5 next year.
So if Aer Lingus try to move the LHR flights to BHD, they likely will lose the codeshare, on top of going up against an airline whose product they can't match.
Moving to BHD won't solve Aer Lingus' problems and unfortunately just create another, different set. Potentially they can go up against Flybe, but here is the benefit of that? many Flybe destinations are marginal as it stands. No new routes and esyjet will just fight back from BFS driving yields ever lower.
Crucially, there will be no net benefit to the travelling public.
A Lufthansa link to Germany, now there's a benefit.
CaptJ