Originally Posted by orbitmic

I think that history is important here. Bear in mind that till very recently, BE was never interested in London at all. It built itself explicitly as a regional point to point airline. Despite not having a hub per se, its main historical airport has been Southampton, with two other big bases in Exeter and Cardiff. Then it added more bases later (BFS, GLA, etc) but none in London and its slots at LGW were only for domestic flights, and they have since sold them to U2. They only started to add flights from LCY about 2 years ago (I think late 2014 or early 2015) and that has been explicitly to focus on business routes.