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Old 31st May 2009, 22:20
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Ringwayman
 
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I'm intrigued as to how the whole BD/LH saga will play out. If BD needs to get more capital into the company, the "quick" way will be sell LHR slots- a.net has a suggestion regarding what destinations to be pared back or cut, with MAN being downgraded to 4 a day. This has the potential to mean that Star Alliance will have seen a large chunk of feeding traffic at LHR from LBA/MME/MAN taken away from it in the space of 12 months. Therefore, will LH add a frequency to FRA and MUC or add capacity, with TK and LX tweaking their ops as well? or perhaps the alleged new plan in the BMI thread about the A330s being brought back may indicate the intention of creating what the Americans would loosely call a "focus city" (but that u-turn would look particularly silly even for bmi).

If any UK destination were to get an Indian airline operated scissor hub, it would be BHX.
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