Originally Posted by
BrianDromey
Interesting view. I am of the opposite opinion, I think leisure travel will recover much more quickly than business travel and that 8-10 flights a day to JFK might never be seen again. Secondary cities with the 787 and LGW 777s were a huge success prior to COVID and I think they will be after. The short haul network looks different today than in 2019, with much lower frequency but quite a few new leisure or "LGW" destinations. Overall I think the BA route map will look broadly similar, but the frequency will be down.
That is a good point. And the 787 made those routes possible. I'm led to believe that BNA and MSY are both leisure-heavy (not really a surprise), so I guess it depends on what leisure appetite would be like - assuming restrictions are lifted. I would imagine they'd have to be relaxed fairly soon, as especially for long haul a lot of leisure pax book further in advance.