Originally Posted by
OPebble
BA don't do these changes on a whim! I am sure that they will have carefully studied the traffic patterns and worked out how many PAX connect from a flight arriving from WAW to other long haul.
Assuming my premise re use of little grey cells is correct one can only assume that the answer is "not many"!
Even if the answer is "quite a lot", I imagine the average yields are low. Warsaw is welded into the STAR network, so BA needs to offer attractive fares to encourage long-haul traffic through LHR.
LCC competition has trashed the yield/demand equation of the point to point traffic between Poland and the UK, so the weak contribution of connecting traffic is having to cover a fairish proportion of the operating costs, and justify the use of prime-time slots at LHR.
Not a happy picture for network carriers. We should expect further rationalisation of short-haul networks, and/or greater use of "partner" arlines/franchise arrangements.