Originally Posted by
Jack1985
Aer Lingus could definately put these 12 new slots to good use extra flights to Belfast, Cork, Dublin plus a new route to Knock.
Er...no. I think you're missing the point fairly totally. The slots are being released in order to maintain competition on the key routes out of LHR which would otherwise become a BA monopoly. I repeat what I wrote above:
The slots have to be used for specific routes - EDI/ABZ/NCE/CAI/RUH/MOW
The condition of using the slots is that they are used to operate services
on those specific routes, not just for whatever any airline might fancy doing with them.