The
Daily Telegraph seems to feel sure that Aer Lingus will be bidding for the LHR slots which IAG is giving up, in order to start services from Heathrow to Edinburgh/Aberdeen and perhaps Nice. This is presumably based on Christoph Mueller's earlier comments to
ATW. (The slots have to be used for specific routes - EDI/ABZ/NCE/CAI/RUH/MOW - and as a non-UK carrier EI would probably not have the bilateral rights (nor the interest) to serve the last three).
Obviously Virgin is also bidding, but if EI were to win slots at LHR for non-Irish services, that
would be an interesting development...