Originally Posted by
richardwft
With KL starting highIsh frequency E190 flights from LCY, I'm sure they'll be more interest from London based flyers.
London-based is such a hard market to get because of course, the attractiveness of nonstop is huge, and on that front, BA is and will remain arch-dominant, but on the margins, even London might even lose small numbers of high contribution flyers to the competition, especially if we are indeed talking of people working near LCY who might feel that a 1h hop with 10 min check in deadline could be not so much worse than crossing London to reach LHR with a far more hectic check in/security limit. Still, I'd expect that to be only a small proportion of London-based people.
However, when it comes to, say, from/to GVA, NCE, BCN, LIN, BRU, etc all of which see very high numbers of high contribution flyers and limited nonstop options compared to the 'mega hubs' of LHR, FRA, CDG, ZRH, and AMS, any switch from BA to competitors could be painful for the bottom line.