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Can I help you
There will be no space at LHR and LGW to park the grounded aircraft so I would expect very few to be operated back even if there are crew and aircraft down route to operate them.
I understand the logic, but there are many other factors to take into account for longhaul planes.
BA has not been in this position for a very long time, but I see what other airlines are doing and they find some adhoc solutions. Typically they prefer to get their LH birds and pax back as soon as possible. Voluntarily stranding a plane, crew and pax incurs heavy costs. Will be interesting to see how many X-LHR LH flights they operate on 9th.
EDIT: I can see that they have already cancelled a lot of LH X-LHR on the 9th. So you were right.