British Airways says no rush to upgrade fleet

24th October 2005, 04:44 AM

In message <435c9d05$0$6156$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreenew s.net>, at
09:36:26 on Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Miss L. Toe <missltoemissltoe@m>
remarked:
>Except that the new US-EU open skies agreement (if it goes through) will
>allow any EU airline to fly from anywhere in the EU to anywhere in the US,
>so BA (if it wanted to) could do LON-NYC, PAR-NYC, BRU-NYC etc etc.

BA is so Heathrow-centric it keeps trying to kill off Gatwick. Are they
really likely to set up a transatlantic base in PAR, BRU etc?
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Roland Perry

24th October 2005, 06:21 AM

In message <435cac58$0$58864$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreene ws.net>, at
10:41:47 on Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Miss L. Toe <missltoemissltoe@m>
remarked:
>> BA is so Heathrow-centric it keeps trying to kill off Gatwick. Are they
>> really likely to set up a transatlantic base in PAR, BRU etc?
>>
>
>If they want to grow and expand and create shareholder value, what else are
>they going to do ? Shrink ?

Build T5 !
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Roland Perry

24th October 2005, 09:35 AM

In message <435cc49e$0$72500$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreene ws.net>, at
12:25:22 on Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Miss L. Toe <missltoemissltoe@m>
remarked:
>> >> BA is so Heathrow-centric it keeps trying to kill off Gatwick. Are they
>> >> really likely to set up a transatlantic base in PAR, BRU etc?
>> >>
>> >
>> >If they want to grow and expand and create shareholder value, what else
>are
>> >they going to do ? Shrink ?
>>
>> Build T5 !
>
>But how much extra capacity is that actually going to give them, assuming
>they completely pull out ot T1 & T4 (which I believe is the plan). It will
>however open up a lot of terminal space for their competitors.

They can't open up any more slots, so perhaps the extra space is going
to make everything less crowded, and avoid the need to unload planes
onto buses because they have run out of jetways.
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Roland Perry

25th October 2005, 10:56 AM

In message <Hiq7f.3509$iZ4.3464@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>, at 13:20:39 on
Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Platinums.co.uk <Dont.exist@dont.bother> remarked:
>i thought that was part of the service airlines get if they pay more. I
>know all the no frills requst a no airbridge gate cause they pay less than
>if they parked on a stand with a airbridge.

I've arrived at Heathrow on a full service airline (Virgin 747) and the
captain has apologised for there being no airbridge, and ranted on about
congestion and how it wasn't going to get any better until T5 was open.
We then waited ages for a bus :-(
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Roland Perry