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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject: Empty Planes? |
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Is Bmi right to fly near-empty flights in order to keep its valuable take-off and landing slots at Heathrow?
The cost of running a flight from Heathrow to Edinburgh is approximately £60,000 but the Heathrow slots are worth about £25m each and they lose the slots if they dont use them regulary. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Empty Planes? |
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gfloyd wrote: | Is Bmi right to fly near-empty flights in order to keep its valuable take-off and landing slots at Heathrow?
The cost of running a flight from Heathrow to Edinburgh is approximately £60,000 but the Heathrow slots are worth about £25m each and they lose the slots if they dont use them regulary. |
Easy Jet have been doing this for years. I suppose the cost of keeping the planes on the ground at these airports are costing more than people think? I wonder why BAA won't too sell off some airports? |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: Empty Planes? |
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mark occomore wrote: | I wonder why BAA won't too sell off some airports? |
Because then they might have some competition and they couldn't cope with that! _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:47 am Post subject: |
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Surely the sensible thing to do is for BMI to talk to BAA and say look ... we want to keep these slots for future use -so we're gonna pay you for them anyway ... but not use them as often as we have been.
It's a win win win..
BMI saves the fuel. BAA gets a bit of breathing space without a drop in revenue and of course none of that nasty carbon is pointlessly pumped into the atmosphere............. |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:10 am Post subject: |
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That's far too much like common sense, Rach _________________ Ron |
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