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Bollocks as ever, outwith peak times there are more than a few gaps.
You think B.A. will agree to only fly outside peak hours, when they 'relocate to LGW' ?? I think you are more out of touch with aviation than we thought.
B.A. want unrestricted access to a big airport with plenty of interlining capacity to European destinations, and only Silver-Boris can provide that.
But perhaps one of the reasons why B.A. are so fearful of the move, is that they have bolstered their accounts and share price with the value of LHR slots. Which is legalised false accounting taken to its extreme (but served Michael Bishop very well, as the Germans believed him). If you strip out the 'asset price' attributed to LHR slots, B.A. will make stupendous losses for a couple of years and their share price will drop like a stone. B.A. is currently searching behind the company sofa for every last penny to fund a slow and painful fleet renewal of their decrepit fleet, and suddenly several hundred million £ will be wiped off their asset base. Could a move to Silver-Boris invite bankruptcy? Is this what B.A. is worried about??
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