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gfloyd



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:21 pm    Post subject: Empty Planes? Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:32 pm    Post subject: Re: Empty Planes? Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Empty Planes? Reply with quote

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!
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's far too much like common sense, Rach Laughing
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