Originally Posted by Skipness One Echo
BA and CFE are on a different AOC but they're not "completely different commercial operators". LCY is a core British Airways market and they've spent a lot of time effort and money getting a loss making RJ operation built up to be the dominant carrier at an airport with high yields and propotionally more golds and silvers on each flight than LHR.
How does this marry up the two operators? It doesn't. They are two different beasts with different business models, fleet and cost bases. It's like calling Loganair Flybe. BA CityFlier are in situ at LCY, not BA mainline.