Originally Posted by
WHBM
I'm waiting for Airport Coordination Ltd, the Gatwick slot managers, to announce that slots cannot just be transferred off to any old non-aviation organisation. The last thing we want is financial industry intermediaries (these bond organisations and others) inserting themselves, and their margins, into the slot trading process.
I was thinking exactly the same today. Slots cannot be held as a commodity. They operate on “use it or lose it” basis, so unless they are transferred to another airline they are effectively worthless.