British Airways is leasing SAA’s 2nd London Heathrow landing slot for five years
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We wrote on Sunday about how South African Airways is dropping one of its two daily flights from Heathrow to Johannesburg with the upside of a new Airbus A330-300 with SAA’s newest business class seat operating the remaining flight.
The rumour is that British Airways has leased the 2nd set of South African Airways landing and take-off slots for five years. SAA is believed to be hopeful that it will be in a better financial position to resume the 2nd daily service after that time.
There is no guarantee that BA will use the slots to operate an additional service to South Africa. The early morning Heathrow landing slot is particularly useful and is more likely to be used to add a new service to North America or Asia.
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