Perphaps BA's grand plan involves elbowing in on EI's DUB market until EI decide to withdraw BHD and then BA withdraw DUB. I still am amazed that BA is putting 7 daily rotations onto DUB LHR, and 6 to 7 daily from BHD. Like DUB, BHD has one less per day than Willie Walsh talked about.
BA in effect is expending up to 15 daily slot pairs to fly LHR to DUB and BHD routes that EI can cover for them from the point of view of feeder traffic, and while yes BHD might have been a good route for bmi, BA has exchanged and opportunity to cooperate with EI and in return, guarantee the interline at LHR and also also BA to use these precious slots ex LHR for all of these new markets that BA wants to get into....
I think DUB frequency is no more than slot fillers and it will be reduced down to say 4 or 5 daily sooner rather than later.
EI-BUD