Originally Posted by
BirdmanBerry
Despite having the same parent company, if an airline goes bust, wouldn't the airport operator put the slots back up for sale/auction/whatever? Can another airline just take them straightaway? Surely if there is some value to the slots then they should be paying the administrator for them to give back towards the creditors?
Not sure where flybmi holds slots of any value. Slots do not have a value as such, it is only at slot-constrained airports where slots sales take place, provided that they are not illegal in the jurisdiction in question (there are a different views across Europe whether or not slots can be owned and thus traded by airlines). As flybmi does not serve LHR, LGW, LCY or MAN, I don't really see which slots are of any value. STN slots are for a PSO route for which different rules apply, IIRC. Maybe at DUS. At MUC I think they were slot-sitting for Lufthansa.