All this talk of slots has made me look in the archives to see 'services that never were' (routes applied for but never operated):
2003:
EUjet applied to base 6 aircraft at MAN for various Euro routes
Delta 2nd daily ATL service
Mahan air 1 weekly to Tabriz with A310/A300
Lufthansa sixth daily Munich (never realised it got to 5 daily)
LTE applied for daily A320 to Barcelona
Malaysian wanted to go 6 weekly B747-400
Afriquayah to Tripoli
2004:
Delta applied for 2nd daily ATL again
Iberia 2 daily MD87 to MAD
AV8 to DEL/DUR/PLZ with B767-300
Malev daily BUD nightstopper with B737
Icelandair based B767 to operate CPT!
Virgin express 2 daily to BRU
Afriquayah to Tripoli
2005:
Afriquayah to Tripoli (notice a pattern here)
Air India 3 weekly DEL-MAN-YYZ and return (went to BHX)
Swiss daily year round GVA
Malev 3 daily to BUD
Royal Jordanian 2 weekly A310 to AMM
Cathay pacific 4 weekly to HKG via SVO
Centralwings daily to Warsaw
Easyjet 5 based B737-700
2006:
Atlas Blue 2 weekly to Marrakech
Condor daily MUC with A320
Meridina to CAG/OLB up to 4 weekly
Lithuanian 3 weekly to VNO
Qatar 2nd daily
United daily IAD with B767-300
Blue1 2 weekly to HEL
Air Baltic to VNO 3 weekly
Transaero 1 weekly to VKO
More to follow.....