Originally Posted by
laviation
Hainan appear to be adding a 5th weekly flight to PEK from W23, according to the ACL report.
They currently operate 4 p/w
Cathay back to daily to HKG, although they've held daily slots for some time now, I do expect them to upgauge in some way shape or form
Unfortunately CX has to use 5 slots a day at LHR, as they do not want to loose them, what with LHR being the centre of the universe! The consequences of not enough pilots and a/c means that places like MAN, had to give up slots in order to serve LHR. MAN was supposed to be daily this summer, as were other European ports, but in order to maintain LHR the other European ports had to sacrifice some of their flts! Until such time as there are enough pilots/aircraft (still have 30 in storage until the end of the year) things won't change unfortunately.