I meant if BMI are integrated into BA. I understand that they don't have to use all the slots for LH but if all slots are transfered to BA, as would surely happen with the integration, then those slots are all now BA's. Therefore cannot be used to set up new airline (that's how I understand SCOPE). I'm just trying to understand it as this question doesn't seem to have been answered by those saying that IAG can still set up a new carrier in the future.