Alliance shifting?
Quote: "Fairdealfrank.
I'm not sure you can make such a statement about there being no chance of an alliance shifting.
Not when Mr Walsh threatened exactly that a few weeks ago."
What they say and what they do are often different.
Remain unconvinced that any of the carriers at LHR would give up on the wealth of connections and interlining/through-ticketing opportunities and the premium business available LHR and nowhere else in the UK. Could only envisaging it happening in the case of a carrier in such dire straits that it has to sell/lease out its LHR slots to survive.
Having paid millions for scarce LHR slots, imagine that many carriers would be loathe to give them up or lease them out to the competition.
The movement tends to be the other way, from LGW to LHR (there's plenty of evidence and examples of this!), so don't see the reverse happening. Don't envisage a carrier doing it, let alone an entire alliance.
Could be completely wrong of course, but the balance of probability must be against.....
Last edited by Fairdealfrank; 24th Jul 2013 at 16:03.