Originally Posted by
cumbrianboy
EI provide interline for a number of non IAG airlines and always have done. A lot of Dublin flights still carry the EY code and certainly a lot feed into VS etc ...
This was one of the conditions attached to approval of the IAG take over Aer Lingus.
"The clearance decision is conditional upon the following commitments, which address the Commission’s concerns:- the release of five daily slot pairs at London-Gatwick airport to facilitate the entry of competing airlines on routes from London to both Dublin and Belfast ; and
- Aer Lingus continuing to carry connecting passengers to use the long-haul flights of competing airlines out of London-Heathrow, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Amsterdam, Shannon and Dublin."
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/pres.../en/IP_15_5371