Theoretically Alex Cruz should be in position to reconcile these different competing targets of different areas of the business. Enough said .....
Why do we keep blaming HAL ?
This isn't a Heathrow problem!
Th problem was with BA and the organisation.
Let's not have all this world class British Company nonesense if error after error continues to blight the company.
They are supposed to be our "show piece" airline.
Bloody hell, is Cruz STILL in charge? "Teflon" must be his middle name.
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The UK really needs a green field site airport, near the capital, with plenty of space for expansion.
I hear the idea for Boris Island is still being banded around somewhere...
not as long as airport construction, operation and ownership is in the private sector, ditto for the public sector...........
So we are a bit stuck with dear old Heathrow which relatively speaking does have a decent piece of flat real estate right next to it only inhabited by working class people or foreigners neither of whom count in the British planning process.
Between Heathrow and the areas "
only inhabited by working class" (are you referring to Hayes and West Drayton??) is "
a decent piece of flat real estate". It's the site of the proposed third rwy.
If you end up with a split site that kills all connections, as Montreal found out. In fact Mirabel was the making of Toronto as Canada's main gateway; before Mirabel Montreal had been, and a significant rationale for Montreal's commercial decline and Toronto's ascendancy was Mirabel (now closed).
To an extent yes, Dorval 1 Mirabel 0.
There was also the issue of the separatist Bloc Quebecois party running the government in Quebec and the endless banging on about "independence, the "neverendums" and the failure to stick to the day job of running the province properly (ring any bells, Nicola?). This is the main reason that Montreal was eclipsed by Toronto as Canada's main city, and there's been no going back.
Yes you could legally enforce the closure of Heathrow, but the political fallout from employees, property owners, frequent travellers and businesses who have developed all around it would make the 3rd runway issues trivia in comparison.
Only by nationalising it (not a good use of taxpayers' money and consequently a vote loser while public services are crumbling) and/or by Act of Parliament (which won't get through), so neither will ever happen.
The commercial advantage would lie with any carrier who managed to stay at Heathrow. So they all would want to.
For the same reason Gatwick will always be the Heathrow waiting room, even with a second rwy.
Any coincidence that 2 out of the bottom 3 have been or are being managed by Mr Cruz.
BA and Vuelling only Ryanair preventing them from hitting rock bottom.
Nothing to be proud of son!
At the moment though shareholders are happy as they get dividends and a return on their investment. The group are on track to record massive profits again this year. I think however that this will be the last time that they make the massive profits they have posted in previous years.
It won't last, sooner or later the shareholders will get restless when expectations are raised and dividends are reduced .......