It also appears that BA are dropping Newcastle down to 5 flights a day except Monday and Thursday when it's still 6 a day and Saturday which is 4 a day to fund their expansion in the short haul leisure flights. I think the current reduction in numbers is due to the addition of Club on domestics which blocks of a middle seat, but I hope that numbers don't ontinue to fall and BA cut more from NCL like they have done with BHD and LBA.
Timings aside, wouldn't it be worth for BA to cut a few of these services (say to 4pd and 2/3 on weekends) and put a larger aircraft in to compensate. They retain the volume while also freeing up LHR slots which maybe more beneficial. I think that would have been more appropriate than trimming the programme at LBA which was doing pretty well.