Air New Zealand gets £20m for its London Heathrow landing and take-off slots

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• Susan says:

  10 Mar10 March 06:19

  What are the chances of a govt order to protect the LHR slots? Rotations of empty planes with all their noise and pollution damage simply to retain future rights would seem to be daft if a quick signature from the transport secretary can obviate the need: the airport gets a rest from running at full stretch, the airlines don’t fly empty planes and everyone gets the benefit of a lighter environmental impact.

  • Shoestring says:

    10 Mar10 March 07:42

    https://liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com/2020/03/07/coronavirus-ghost-flights-heathrow/

    • TGLoyalty says:

      10 Mar10 March 07:52

      I believe it needs EU ratification.

      • Shoestring says:

        10 Mar10 March 09:00

        [Yesterday Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, wrote to the European Commission urging it to drop EU-wide rules that force airlines to operate “ghost” flights to retain their landing slots at airports. This could lead to a sharp increase in cancelled flights.]

    • Nick_C says:

      10 Mar10 March 08:09

      And it was raised at PMQ’s last week

• SAVVYTYKE says:

  10 Mar10 March 06:21

  So does this present an opportunity for the single flyer to buy avios for an off peak long haul flight during the Corona Virus current environment ?

  • Anna says:

    10 Mar10 March 06:53

    You could, but cash fees seem to be low at the moment and your travel plans risk being disrupted as the Coronavirus situation continues to unfold. Also we’ll soon be in peak pricing period for the Easter holidays.

• paulm says:

  10 Mar10 March 06:28

  I read yesterday that Oman air have brought the slot so they can start 3rd daily flight

• Shoestring says:

  10 Mar10 March 06:37

  https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/travel/253693-air-asia-seat-sale-march-2020?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1583770258

  6 million Air Asia seats for a penny

• Bhavin says:

  10 Mar10 March 06:40

  Correction…Oman air paid kenya airways

  • Rob says:

    10 Mar10 March 08:38

    Sorry!

• Genghis says:

  10 Mar10 March 06:41

  “ This may seem a lot, but it is well below the record $75m paid by Kenya Airways to Oman Air a couple of years ago”.

  I thought Oman Air did the buying?
  https://headforpoints.com/2016/03/05/bits-75m-for-heathrow-slot-pair-new-intercon-in-pattaya-flying-blue-miles-sale/

  • KP says:

    10 Mar10 March 07:03

    Yes Oman paid KQ, not the other way round

    • Alex Sm says:

      10 Mar10 March 22:44

      It was obvious from the very beginning. If one applies a bit of logic

• marcw says:

  10 Mar10 March 08:42

  Rob, the (northern) summer IATA season is 7 months long (the winter, only 5 months). I guess you know this, but you wrote 6 months in the article.

  • Rob says:

    10 Mar10 March 10:27

    Oh yeah 🙂 Can’t count from March to October.

• George K says:

  10 Mar10 March 08:42

  OT: I’ve got a Lloyds voucher booking for Canada in June. Can someone remind me what, if any, rebooking options I’ve got without losing the voucher? The voucher itself has expired (so cancelling would not make it come back in my account), but I seem to recall that there was an option to move the dates (with the usual £35 fee) and keep the same destination (or another in the same zone?).

  It’s also entirely possible I dreamt all this…

  • TGLoyalty says:

    10 Mar10 March 08:52

    I believe you can move within the same zone and for up to 12 months from your original expiry date

    FYI even if it was still valid you wouldn’t get it back in you cancelled your flight.

    • rams1981 says:

      10 Mar10 March 10:29

      So if the voucher expired in Dec 2019 you could only use it up to Dec 2020? Has to be same zone and £35 per person change fee?

  • rams1981 says:

    10 Mar10 March 11:44

    so if voucher expires on 1 Dec 2019, and you booked travel for 1 Apr 20 on 1 Dec 19 you could in theory change to anywhere up to 1 Dec 20.

    • BA-Flyer says:

      10 Mar10 March 13:54

      That’s my understanding, yes. Also, it’s the return flight that must be completed before then, not just the outbound.

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