Just a few days left and the British govt is under pressure from both sides.
The Sunday Times reports that TB will be talking to GB to try and wrangle some concessions, including a 5 month delay in increased access to LHR. There is expected to be a sympathetic reaction to that, although Britain is also expected to push for another concession, whereby talks with the US on increased domestic access must start within 60 days and conclude within a certain, set timeframe, or else the whole deal falls through. Since the UK is the only country looking for this access, this is unlikely to get much of a hearing.
There will be a lot of talking next week, but it is now expected that a deal will be done.
BA is planning to move ATL, IAH and DFW routes to LHR (although it probably won't be able to do this before LHR is open to more US carriers) and Virgin is looking at route from other European countries.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...8/cnopen18.xml