Originally Posted by
Cyrano
Manchester ends in March 2015, Scottish routes end in September 2015
Alas LBC Radio, in the "Business" commentator section
has just announced this as a news item, saying 'so that's it, a BA monopoly from now on'. Presumably they don't read press releases beyond the first line any more.
Meanwhile, Sir Richard, if you would only take a little notice of those of us who frequent the Aviation History & Nostalgia pages here, you would know we have a lot of experience of previous challenges to BA's lead on domestic routes. I recall Dan-Air having a shot at MAN-LHR (yes, not LGW) in the mid-1980s, that didn't last either, I once took one of the three per day flights, about 20 passengers maybe. BMI at least had a different approach and built up a significant business by the 1990s, alas one which still was apparently never ever profitable, especially once their Star Alliance partners started flooding their connections with commercially unprofitable interliners. At Little Red, where are all the commercial contracts for the volume accounts, the Scottish Parliament politicians and civil servants, the BBC journalists, the Royal Bank of Scotland, etc etc etc - afraid they remained over on BA.