Strange enough somehow it was the US that started discussions about open Skies and wanted to bluff intelf into an agreement for LHR, taking up all these bilateral open skies to 'press' the brits into doing it, and very strange enough the brits said always, yes, but no favourism for anybody, and they still say that.
LHR must be really worth something...
Or, judging by how much US airlines have lost in the past few years they just overestimate it?
The brits have been pretty clear on this, and the EU as well, so since the US were the ones starting talk open skies (and we mean open skies here, not US favourable skies, but same rules for all), suddenly slots at LHR should be favoured?
Very strange also is that other carriers have been able to get slots at LHR, incidentally partly by buying them or by queuing up.
So, in a quintessence, the US airlines are begging for favourite treatment because they cannot stand up to competition, or did I totally missunderstand something?