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12-20-2012 | 07:40 AM
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12-20-2012 | 08:14 AM
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Well it seems that this Virgin Atlantic deal is more interesting than I thought.
Ryanair is trying a hostile takeover of Aer Lingus. If that goes through, Ryanair has signed an MOU to give the Heathrow slots to BA. Those slots are the ones Virgin was counting on for the domestic feed from Manchester, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen. It turns out VA was going to wet lease 4 320s from Aer Lingus who would crew and fly those jets. But that won't be possible if BA's gets control of those slots. Seems VA doesn't have any scope provisions either if Aer Lingus was going to do the flying. At least that was my interpretation from the Aviation Week article.
IAG, Ryanair In Potentional Deal For Aer Lingus Slots At Heathrow
Ryanair is trying a hostile takeover of Aer Lingus. If that goes through, Ryanair has signed an MOU to give the Heathrow slots to BA. Those slots are the ones Virgin was counting on for the domestic feed from Manchester, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen. It turns out VA was going to wet lease 4 320s from Aer Lingus who would crew and fly those jets. But that won't be possible if BA's gets control of those slots. Seems VA doesn't have any scope provisions either if Aer Lingus was going to do the flying. At least that was my interpretation from the Aviation Week article.
IAG, Ryanair In Potentional Deal For Aer Lingus Slots At Heathrow
12-20-2012 | 08:37 AM
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Well it seems that this Virgin Atlantic deal is more interesting than I thought.
Ryanair is trying a hostile takeover of Aer Lingus. If that goes through, Ryanair has signed an MOU to give the Heathrow slots to BA. Those slots are the ones Virgin was counting on for the domestic feed from Manchester, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen. It turns out VA was going to wet lease 4 320s from Aer Lingus who would crew and fly those jets. But that won't be possible if BA's gets control of those slots. Seems VA doesn't have any scope provisions either if Aer Lingus was going to do the flying. At least that was my interpretation from the Aviation Week article.
IAG, Ryanair In Potentional Deal For Aer Lingus Slots At Heathrow
Ryanair is trying a hostile takeover of Aer Lingus. If that goes through, Ryanair has signed an MOU to give the Heathrow slots to BA. Those slots are the ones Virgin was counting on for the domestic feed from Manchester, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen. It turns out VA was going to wet lease 4 320s from Aer Lingus who would crew and fly those jets. But that won't be possible if BA's gets control of those slots. Seems VA doesn't have any scope provisions either if Aer Lingus was going to do the flying. At least that was my interpretation from the Aviation Week article.
IAG, Ryanair In Potentional Deal For Aer Lingus Slots At Heathrow
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12-20-2012 | 09:00 AM
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Open Skies lets us fly between countries, but we couldn't do the intra England flying (think Cabotage)
We also would be backfilling early-out A320 captains, instead of displacing surplus A320 FOs if that were the plan...
More likely the jets will come from a more closely related operator.
Cheers
George
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12-20-2012 | 09:09 AM
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What are you talking about? The picture in the article cle... wait, let me read the article... .. ......... . ... ....... oh..... oops.
well, now I see how low information voters get their news.
12-20-2012 | 09:28 AM
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yes, I did read it wrong, sorry. VA got the slots BA had to give up, now they just need jets and presumably crews to do the flying. The Scots might let us do the Aberdeen and Edinburgh to Heathrow flying, they don't consider themselves British anyway. TIC
12-20-2012 | 09:35 AM
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12-20-2012 | 09:38 AM
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(Or wishful thinking on my behalf?)
12-20-2012 | 10:04 AM
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Or is that just too logical?
12-20-2012 | 10:08 AM
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TOC indeed. We don't need to do their intra-Europe. They can shift crews to do the intra-Europe, and we can fly more of the Atlantic, in a cost-effective way.
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