Originally Posted by
LiviLion
Whilst BD say the summer timetable will operate personally I think only the flight numbers will run, chances are a lot of them will be operated by BA on codeshare with the normal BA service.
Unless BA is ready to launch new services using the vacated slots, this is not going to happen as they would not want to lose slots through non-use... unless they run large numbers of phantom flights, of course, but this latter possibility would have a PR cost.