It wasn't made by "the brits". It was made by a private company called BA. Do you understand that people are individuals?

Is this going to be said whenever a British company has a dispute in another country?

As long as Russian companies cannot fly into EU (and I guess British) aerial space, never mind landing on the airports located there, any such discussion of “you see, this is a private matter only, there’s nothing the Government could have done about it even if it so wished” is besides the point.

They could have just instructed the Heathrow operators “assign X slots for companies A, B, C and that is that”, the same way they’re telling aviation companies “you cannot fly to Moscow, and that is that”, it is all about political will at the top.

Russian companies are being sanctioned because their tax money pays for the war in Ukraine.

What an idiotic way of approaching aviation economics.

Heathrow's owned by a Spanish company called Ferovial....