The ship concerned has been allowed to dock in Cuba hence the flights.

The three B777s are as reported bringing back the cruise passengers, those that might have symptoms or need isolation are being brought back by separate means by the UK government.

My refund was deposited in my bank today.

Alchad

Terminal Closures
 

http://www.simpleflying.com/heathrow...4-closure/amp/

Terminal closures with Terminal 4 more than likely closing and British Airways consolidating their flights at Terminal 5.

Who could have imagined this scenario happening only a few weeks ago.

There were a few poster's, well two actually who were suggesting from one of my posts that British Airways wouldn't retire their fleet of Boeing 747's because they were "bought and paid for and were cheap to run because of the lower price of oil". I hate to say it but I told you so.

Very sad situation, it's all turned into a complete and utter nightmare for all concerned. How long it will take to get over this situation is anyone's guess, probably years tbh.

This makes no sense.
BA have a much lower demand now and have plenty of twin jets which but significantly less fuel than 747. Irrespective of the fuel price the reality is that they will want to operate the unit that will burn less fuel. The newest long haul twin jets are in the fleet and cannot be sent back!!! If that were so, then using the 747s at lower fuel unit cost would make sense. But that's not possible!

BA have certainly stored aircraft around UK now, so HAL have lost parking revenue. One A320 took a leisurely trip to BOH via Poole harbour today.

11 BA short haul aircraft flying into BOH today plus another 10 tomorrow. Others have already gone there in the past few days. CWL have received a number of aircraft in the past few days too.

This is great news for CWL and BOH in the current situation, although probably not massive sums, any parking charges will help there business, just a shame SOU hasn't been able to do similar.

Much though HAL might enjoy the revenue, there isn't nearly enough space at LHR to park BA's entire fleet.

Space is very limited at SOU, but even more so with 6 ex-Flybe Dashes still in situ as far as I know.

You'd think someone in management would have made a decision to move these, so the stands could be utilized for parking, is much needed revenue lost in my eyes.

BA are burning over £1m per hour at the moment according to reports. That is an incredible amount of money for what could be months long shutdown.

Purely a thought, but they may well be chasing unpaid landing/parking charges for those aircraft as it is.

That maybe so, I don't disagree, but why not move them to a remote site to create space for some additional revenue??

Fair point, only thing I could imagine is there may be contractual/legal quirks relating to accessing and moving them around.

BA will want their a/c at as few sites as possibe - so 20 a/c at one site is better than two a/c at 10.

I wonder how long it will be before they start to backpedal over their recent boasts about their vast cash reserves meaning they don't need government support after VS called for the government to extend lines of credit to the entire industry?

British Airways suspending UK domestic flights today from Heathrow to Inverness, Newcaslte and Leeds/Bradford until May

Inverness is closing expert for the royal mail flights and medical

Please accept my apologies for posting the Scum but it is the only source at the moment because the company and TU are saying very little.
Someone in the know is obviously on the Scum's payroll.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/113066...taff/#comments