Originally Posted by
Flightrider
There are no slots ringfenced at LHR for any PSO or other purpose. If you read my earlier post it explains how the slots have been obtained.
OK, I stand corrected, thank you. (In the Irish context, slots in DUB for the domestic PSO routes are ringfenced for the routes rather than for the airlines - clearly from what you say this is not so in the UK.) But then I'm puzzled about how this works from a PSO point of view. When the NQY PSO is up for renewal in 2 years or whatever, how can any other carrier bid for it without access to LHR slots? And if (hypothetically) flybe has disappeared by then, or become Virgin Eclectic focused on providing feed to LHR and MAN and CDG and AMS, where are slots going to come from for another NQY PSO operator?