Member

The noble Lord, Lord Grayling, is correct to say that it makes sense to have feeder flights, but I am trying to envision a set of circumstances, which I hope will never arise, in which an operator, while continuing to operate a route, decides that, instead of doing six, seven or eight rotations a day to a particular airport, they will cut it to, say, four. The other issue is time. In some cases, the value of these slots is related to the time that they are applicable. If you are trying to have a day’s business in London, for instance, you need what we would call a red-eye flight. If you have a lunchtime flight, it is a waste of a day.