Originally Posted by
Albert Hall
You have to wonder how deep the Mayor's pockets are. His opponent has a fair point.
They have no slots for this winter at LHR and running an E170 into LHR is a very expensive exercise as the noise margin means that it's charged more for landing than an A320. It could be a very expensive flash in the pan.
Given that the booking horizon for MME-LHR goes up to 27 March 2021 (end of the IATA Winter season), where have the slots come from? The didn't get any out of the slot pool so presumably they have leased them off somebody.