Quite apart from the issue of social distancing within airport terminals.

Be interesting if similar criteria is imposed on BA - should they receive a gov dot uk bale out - as been imposed on Air France w.r.t. short domestic flights:

https://www.railjournal.com/passenge...ail-in-france/

That would surely kill LHR to both MAN and LBA, and even NCL GLA and EDI if the French 1 h 15 min flight became a UK 1 h 30 m.

And UK+FR for example and/or other lands acting together could kill off LHR CDG / BRU, and so on. in favour of channel tunnel - in terms of flight time, if 1 h 30 m were set.

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Of course France has the benefit of a large high speed rail system which had already eaten into domestic air services. That said Virgin's high frequency timetable was said to have done the same for Manchester - with the exception of those using Man-LHR to connect to other flights.

Also, I seem to recall that France has ducked, dived and evaded the EU's railway liberalisation rules. With these in mind, I think that Air France were themselves proposing to run trains between Paris, Paris CDG, Lyon and the south, but AFAIK this came to nothing.

LHR isn't exactly connected to the rest of the country by high speed rail, so apples and oranges.

AND when has France and Germany obeyed EU rules when it suits them! They disregard EU rules as and when is convenient to either or both of them.

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OBB, Arriva and NS operate trains in Germany .

And the liberation is a British idea you know ruin every other integrated network !

And there's an independent operator in Italy also.
The EU may be slow to enforce its rules, but they do enforce them. The idea that only the UK obeys them is one of the founding myths of Brexit.

Assuming you mean Italo, in their early days (maybe still) they were subjected to lots of dirty tricks by Trenitalia, the nationally-owned operator, while the government and the EU sat on their hands.

They haven’t enforced it in Italy up until now - they have been in special administration for 3 years.

I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing that the Italian government have propped up Alitalia over all of these years, protecting livelihoods, but you can understand when the likes of RYR complain about this sort of thing; when there’s a perception of one rule for one...

Those BA staff remaining to go onto zero hours contracts.

Those being made redundant get Govt minima only.

Ruthless and opportunist.

I see trouble ahead.

No danger of that soon.

The fastest Edinburgh to London train is OVER 4 hours.

Edinburgh to Manchester fastest is over 3 hours, Birmingham even longer

On the other hand, for Birmingham and Manchester at least, the train is much more frequent in normal times, and gives you uninterrupted work time.

Hmm - that's a matter of opinion....

Except that the Air France agreement specifically exempts routes to/from "hub" airports such as CDG because of transit pax. So pretty much like the BA routes into LHR. Note it's the routes that are exempt, irrespective of whether pax are transiting or not..

Riding on those God awaful Voyagers, no thanks!

Scotland to Manchester will now always be a brand new 397 aka Nova 2. To Birmingham it will usually be a pendolino, but you will sometimes unfortunately get a Voyager. Avanti will replace them.

Its Pendolini on these routes

This is supposed to be a thread about BA not a discussion about Thomas the tank engine

If BA did move its E-jet fleet to LGW, would they completely give up their profitable LCY routes or would they expand their Ejet fleet with more planes, say with E2 generation that flies farther and burning less fuel?
Also would they be able to increase seat count on their fleet and get the bigger E195s?

If BA pull the domestic routes then we'll have no alternative to travel by Thomas the tank engine. NCL and LBA could be pulled sooner than one thinks!