Originally Posted by orbitmic

well that’s an open question because it depends of what pricing becomes. If ba downgrades the service and keep prices as they are, as you say, not many people will buy this o/d. If by contrast the change in service means alignment with the prices you can get on eg the LH group which often goes down to about €500 return in C to parts of Europe, it may attract a new customer basis. I think ba are also banking on much of the tlv traffic being connecting anyway notably to/from the us so from that point of view they probably don’t see a need to differentiate the product with their key European competitors almost all of which treat tlv as short haul and will keep doing so in the face of dominant lcc competition.

it’s really bad news for tlv based members and for those of us often flying to tlv with ba but not wholly surprising.

still I resent the fact that ba are self carving more and more exemptions to their own distance based rules be it at 2000 or 6000 cut offs.

Originally Posted by PLeblond

This. No decision in an airline's route allotment is made in a silo. Availability of aircraft is a zero sum game. Perhaps their forecasts indicate that the return to higher load levels on that route will be gradual after service resumes and other routes will generate more revue in the interim. And when the market conditions change wide-body could be resumed.