Originally Posted by
bcn_boy
It's the same with Las Vegas route, that is mostly leisure, these kind of flights should be at Gatwick leaving Lhr as business only.
Not all. You might only see them as "leisure" but BA being the ones operating the routes see it differently. Put it this way, just look at the amount of additional in-house connections alone at LHR that make these routes work and enable them to be at such frequency.
While the load factors for CTU may have been slowly picking up, BA obviously didnt see fit to wait and see the potential future revenue come in from this route and see better, perhaps faster streams elsewhere.
Gatwick for BA is not so much leisure orientated as you call it but more point to point. I.e larger amounts of customers originating from that destination / the UK. Of course there are connecting customers at LGW too. Just not on the scale they are able to achieve ex LHR.