On the basis that Jet2 announced the LPL growth many months before Summer 2024 slot allocations became known only recently, they’ve chosen to grow at Liverpool on its own merits.
And as United didn’t even request at MAN, they clearly aren’t interested. Constraints don’t stop airlines from doing something they weren’t going to do anyway.
Given the litigious nature of the US carriers (just look at JetBlue at AMS) then you can be certain that if some barrier in either the bilateral or slot allocations stood in the way of them flying to MAN, we’d all know about it. There would be calls for BA to be banned from serving ****sville Arizona as their new US arrival point, Virgin to be barred from launching MAN-LAS and the whole nine yards. But no. The US carriers are not interested right now. That may change with time.
Last edited by Flightrider; 19th Nov 2023 at 07:45.