Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave

The good news is that this isn't a sustainable situation for BA or HAL. HAL will be leaving money on the table purely due to their inept handling of this, and BA are in a similar scenario, slightly mitigated by being able to forecast the problem somewhat better than HAL. This is anecdote but I mentioned separately a LYS flight with over 40 untaken seats, and lowest fares north of £500. They probably did sell one of those tickets at that price for someone who really had no choice, but would have sold all of those 40 seats with fares in the £100, £150 range. At some point non LHR airlines will shift capacity to have some of BA's business. It must be highly frustrating. This supply constraint is artificial and will be resolved. It may take until October before we see evidence of this, though.