I was just wondering if anyone had heard any progress on this; is it completely impossible that a deal might be done in time for this weekend's summit in Ireland?
I read this week (can't remember if it was Airwise or ATW news) that there was a dispute between various EU members (possibly along the lines of the EU constitution talks this weekend), where the Germans and others were objecting to having to wait for the LHR issue to be sorted out.
What's most frustrating is that everyone knew that the LHR issue would be a fraught and incredibly difficult one to deal with; I still don't understand why cabotage has to be brought into it; a third UK airline wants to fly to the US and more US airlines want to fly to LHR; can't they just agree two allow one from each country and a progressive growth in the number of cities served and frequencies. This could go on for years otherwise, holding everyone else up.