Originally Posted by
StevieJ
But what is the point of LGW? I think LHR is much better. Better BA staff and less surly security staff IMO.
Wish BA would move their ops to LHR.
Glad to note your later post in this thread !
BA at LHR doesnt have the slots to move anything from LGW let alone all the routes that arent served from LHR already.
A new team placed by BA to run LGW, internal refits of the 734 fleet, new check-in area etc, me thinks that BA is investing in LGW and not pulling out.
My personal feeling is that within the next 12 months we will see further good news at LGW, not news of services being pulled.
over the next 12 months BA has 3 777-300's scheduled for delivery along with the ?7 stored 744's of which i understand 1 more is scheduled to be stood back up ?
That would suggest that if no birds are removed from service that 4 777-200's could be displaced to LGW from LHR.
Longhaul from Gatters seems to do well by all accounts, so if they can find routes suited to Gatwick why not add services ? its a nobrainer in my opinion, and with a new operator at Gatwick which is eager to add flights im pretty sure that BA will be offered some fairly nice sweetners in that respect.
i do however think that BA needs to be looking at domestic and European services from Gatwick, i know that the Gatwick model focuses mainly on stand alone traffic, especially leisure but any longhaul operation needs feed, and i would suggest that the following routes need to be introduced/reintroduced on BA metal:
NCL, ABZ, INV, NQY, MAD, BCN, GIB, CDG, TLS, FRA, MUC & TXL as well as increased capacity or flights to the current JER, MAN, EDI and GLA
obviously this is all just my opinion, no doubt im wrong and i fully understand that BA arent going to order up a brand new fleet of 30 B738's or A320's however how much of this could be acheived my playing around with whatever agreement it is that prevents BA Cityflyer from operating into Gatwick ?
could CJ not with a little tweek operate nice new E190/170's EDI-LGW-MAN-LGW-JER etc etc etc ?
anyway, no doubt im totally wrong, and ill be put down on the forum for liking LGW !
just seems to me that having all your eggs in one basket is a little stupid when it comes to irregular operations, or negotiations with the airport operators etc ! same principle as why motorway service stations get away with charging you double what everyone else charges throughout the country for a cuppa, captive market !
hey ho !
cs