Would an alliance risk loosing front end business passengers to other alliances still using t LHR by moving to LGW.they wouldn't get many back.
STAR have their own multi billion pound exclusive and brand new T2 at LHR opening soon so unlikely... Skyteam have been accomodated well in a newly refurbished T4 and Oneworld are BA's main partner. What is the commercial upside of walking away from LHR to join easyJet and Thomson at Gatters?
I'm not sure you can make such a statement about there being no chance of an alliance shifting.
Not when Mr Walsh threatened exactly that a few weeks ago.
Are BA moving to Gatwick? Seriously? Or just Iberia
? My bad....
The key issue that other airports with a "constellation" of airports don't have a dominant succesful world hub. The only winners in forcing an alliance out of Heathrow would be the lawyers, Lufthansa even suspended LGW-FRA for the winter, as traffic prefers LHR in that market.