stormin - is LH willing to sell just slots (and deal with the redundancy issues through a potentially very expensive court case, or does it come as part of a package known as bmi ?
Could the bmi slots, crew and aircraft at LHR be used by dropping destinations which are unprofitable due to over capacity, and fill in gaps that BA probably might want to open to boost long haul but which bmi could never make work on a standalone basis as they didn't have a substantial long-haul operation to feed ? An example being something like Leeds - LHR...