Again if Emirates wanted to they could easily have gained slots at LGW, although it's continuously said on these threads that both LHR and LGW are full airlines can find the slots if needed as other airlines have done recently.
Slots are bought or leased from other carriers not "magiced" out of thin air.
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There are certain posters who continually state that all the airlines at LGW would rather be at LHR. Now it's being suggested that airlines are choosing STN because LGW is full.
This has literally never been claimed by anyone to my knowledge.
That would be me.
There is a certain amount of truth in this. However, that doesn't mean
every carrier at LGW would rather be at LHR. To suggest that would very very silly wouldn't it.
That said, there
is a steady flow of mainly longhaul, new entrants to the London market, that obtain LGW slots with the intention of shifting accross to LHR when the opportunity presents itself. There is plenty of evidence to support this fact.