Heathrow CEO Colin Matthews said:
“Traffic to the BRIC economies was strong this month, driven in part by a 19.2% increase in passengers to China. Heathrow is now the only UK airport serving the market after Air China suspended its services from Gatwick, making it the latest in a long list of airlines that have found it impossible to make long-haul business routes work from point to point airports. In contrast, BA has redeployed previous bmi slots to introduce a new route from Heathrow to Chengdu, showing that if new capacity were available at the UK’s hub, airlines would add new routes.”
