Hmm. Well it certainly won't contribute to profits for a year or so.
And I am not really sure 757s will cut it on these routes, despite their extra speed. Though I suppose their modest capacity reduces risk.
L'Avion use them between Paris and New York in all business Class layout.
Though inevitably it will mean reduced capacity for intra-Europe flights, especially Espana flights exT3 for which the 757s are currently earmarked, but then again Iberia takeover looms.......
Though in BA's favour it does have usually excellent lounges at many European outstations (which will be due a priority refurb in line with the
new lounge concept), ground ops are in place, and it will reduce the need to transit LHR, which although not consistently as bad as many exceptional horror stories make out on here, is not as easy as it should be.
Does seem a shame that these services will be launched after
www.ba.com/terminal5 makes transits on BA that much faster and less stressful.
And please let's stop this hellhole LHR mantra. It really has been a difficult early summer, but there was a major terrorist attack in the UK, let's remember. It has been extrememly bad in exceptional cases, but sometimes it works just fine andwill get better with T5.