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Noticed something strange on Cathay's website this morning... Just tried searching for flights from LGW-HKG-DPS in late Jan/early Feb, and flights originating from LGW are coming in noticeably more expensive than the LHR departures, around £200-280 more in economy on the same dates (odd seeing as LHR is the usually the more expensive departure airport). Is this indicating that CX are trying to discourage passengers from flying out of LGW, or even an attempt to price themselves off the route?
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Just had a random look at Gatwick’s departure board which shows 5 Wizz departures over 90 minutes. I thought Wizz just had random flights. Something fishy?
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AFAIK, airport-gatwick.com as mentioned at the top of the image shown is not the official website (or domain to be correct) for Gatwick. However, gatwickairport.com is managed by the airport and may well give more accurate data
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Bit of a nothing story really. They’re cancelling 2-4 daily Caribbean flights for a month due to the travel ban. The rest of the LGW operation was already cancelled until March.
Why not? They'll be hoping the exemptions continue, and they may at some point regain some value. Give them up now, and they're gone.
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The same could be said as to why Flybe still have a round 600 slots at MAN. Grandfather-rights or something.
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The reason why not is there are a lot of applications that were refused because slots are held by an airline that has publicly said that they will not be back. So the consumer suffers as routes that might have been offered will not be.
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would be interested to see airline and slot allocations for LGW in S21. Do you have a link to the report? (Can’t seem to find it anywhere on the ACL website)
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Another possibility: "New airline" that wants slots can approach Virgin to buy some of them through the secondary market. Virgin makes money rather than just putting them back in the pot. It might not be what was originally intended but it is the way the secondary slot market works.
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Is there any solution to Gatwick's problem of airlines starting a new route to all sorts of fanfare and then a few years later shifting to LHR (or if they already operate there, cancelling the Gatwick service)? Lufthansa, China Airlines, Garuda, Vietnam Airlines, Aeroflot, Rwandair and then longer ago Delta, Continental, American, are ones that spring to mind. Is there any way for Gatwick to stop being simply a stepping stone, a way to launch London flights until Heathrow is available? It has been going on as long as I can remember, and must be extremely frustrating for Gatwick's management.