Originally Posted by
Rutan16
Plenty of carriers over the years have been “forced” out of Heathrow and some yet returned . As other have said it’s not bilaterals here is simply availability of slots and frankly HAL couldn’t care less for the users of slots or indeed number of carrier's.
The fact is Vietnam aren’t an important carrier especially in the UK market , indeed given there financial condition , retrenching to Paris and allowing AFKL to distribute would probably help their bottom line and reduce the losses.
HAL do care about who uses the slots, that's why they have a pricing model that penalises smaller aircraft. They want Emirates 6 x daily A380s before a similar volume of ATRs.. Losing two long haul destinations in SGN and HAN is something I would say they care about, maybe just not enough to intervene. Does anyone know by how much they missed the use it or lose it criteria? It's not as if they've been absent from LHR entirely.