> Hence, from the perspective of anyone living in West London, you have to wonder why airlines would buy anything else. That assumes that all customers flying

> Hence, from the perspective of anyone living in West London, you have to wonder why airlines would buy anything else. That assumes that all customers flying into LHR are long-haul customers; BA has a large number of domestic flights from LHR (including some wide-body 767s to EDI/GLA, but mostly narrow-body) and they undoubtedly have an effect on the loading of the A380 flights (if BA decided that the LHR-GLA flights weren't profitable because of the cost of landing slots at LHR, I'd simply fly via somewhere else, hence decreasingly the loading on the A380s).