What!? Explain please.
I am talking about possible routes like London-Lima, London-Santiago and London-Jakarta, routes that no airlines operates on and London-Saigon, routes that only operate out ofLGW and hence will not suffer from LHR based competition, so it does not really matter if they come from LGW, although they should move to LHR once spaces become available.
CZ was never at LGW, VN is at present and like many before it, will transfer to LHR in the fullness of time. Only remedy slots are "bid for". Any carrier can buy, lease or sell slots to another, so BA wouldn't neccessarily know about it. Of course all this nonsense could be reduced or eliminated with 2 more
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China Southern stated that the reason its had taken so long to launch a London-Guangzhou service was that they found it difficult to find slots in LHR, they did in the end but its just shows how hard it is for new entrants to access LHR
Even if the slots are merely up for sale, VN will still have to compete with BA when it comes to buying those slots, along with other major airlines, so unless they are prepared to pay though the nose for them, they will find it hard to get any
Also what do you mean “so BA wouldn't necessarily know about it” I thought it was a open market?
If you mean within ST, which one would be willing to do a deal with VN? (Maybe they could get some if AF-KL-DL decides to fully buy out VS and transfer the assets to those airlines and their partners, like VN)
In fact which airline would be prepared to sell to VN (outside of VN) without demanding them to pay a lot of money in return, unless the airline is in serious financial trouble