Originally Posted by
BarneyMcGrew
I quite liked this from the OP's linked article:
What about the greater good of the paying passengers?
Or perhaps in this modern un-joined-up railway they don't count.
Imagine if BA said 'We are cutting our use of runways at LHR and will now only operate on a single runway for both landings and take-offs. We don’t really want to do this, but it is for the greater good of the airline industry'.
I think his point was probably more that it’ll be better for passengers on non-HEX services - which are of course the vast majority at Paddington - at the expense of those using the HEX.