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Skyflier
There aren't any remedy slots because BD had ceased to operate the route before the sale to BA and for that matter there weren't any for GLA for the same reason. Remedy slots were there for EDI, ABZ and MAN but
AFAIK they were all used on EDI and ABZ.
In the new world FlyBe/Virgin Connect are introducing one rotation LHR-GCI in the late afternoon each day but that's all that has happened so far and it's using a VS slot that had been leased to Cobalt - timings are exactly what the Cobalt LCA service was using.
I doubt MME would qualify for a PSO and again
AFAIK they only relate to some of the Scottish Islands with nothing on the mainland and given the service from Darlington to KGX there would never be an argument.
Seems a bit silly: duplicating what already exists when increasing connectivity would make more sense. Whose idea was that?
Fair point about KGX but consideration has to be given to connecting pax and those pax headed to points in the south other than London city centre.
Does anyone have a load factor for Flybe's EDI-LHR? Just with the prospect of common ownership between us all I suspect there may just be enough empty seats to justify it becoming an EDI-MME-LHR...perhaps with an upgrade to E175? Wild speculation of course but probably the most plausible of all the LHR theories, which before now were completely pointless.
Novel idea, would need to be a very quick stopover at MME and this is definitely possible because it's a small quiet airport. Also doesn't need to be on all five (?) of the LHR-EDI flights.
Would this meet the remedy slots criteria?
Who knows! Shouldn't do because it's bringing another non-BA airport on-stream .