Originally Posted by
clubman
I would have though BD suspending the route would have indeed increased traffic on LY (as well as BA).
I know a lot of people who only flew on the route while bmi was operating because it had become so cheap so they could go for any personal event they wanted to. I am sure that bmi leaving the route has caused prices to go up and demand to weaken.
Plus, British Airways and bmi took traffic that was continuing on to other destinations (IAD, BOS, MIA, ORD, JNB, HRE, EZE etc.) while El Al is almost entirely selling just LHR & LTN.