Mart901, I hope you are right and I agree that EI is well established. I had long considered that EI could serve the route exclusively and there are merits for this, though from an BA perspective I cant see them exiting. An upside to increasing EI's operations especially on a LHR route is that the unions (although BHD on different contracts to ROI), cannot raise concerns that IAG had curtailed EI's LHR ops. and in terms of competition I guess taking EI off the route says something about reducing the offer to the consumer. Moreover, the BCN LGW route where BA and VY are both operating at some frequency is a good example that may be replicated...
EI-BUD