That phrase has been banded about for years. As has the national sport of knocking BA.
The airline has had a bad year but it will pull through it just as it has got through rough patches in the past.
And if you compare its fleet, networks and operations at all of LHR, LGW and LCY to ten years ago, there's been a lot of progress on many fronts. And the same can't be said for a long list of airlines: bmi, Virgin Atlantic, CityJet, Flybe...