"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 08:03:05 on Thu, 16 Jun 2016,
tim... remarked:
I was discussing "the whole low-cost flights thing is a result of EU
deregulation, and the allocation of slots is also an EU thing" the slots
being applicable to flights all over the world, so very relevant.

I don't believe that the allocation of slots at any particular airport has
a damned thing to do with the EU

Of course it does. The EU negotiated the Open Skies agreement, not the UK.
Without that, previously only two UK and two US airlines were allowed
UK-USA slots at Heathrow.

but that has nothing to do with the actual allocation of the slots.

LHR can sell their slots to whoever they like, without restriction

The reason that is relevant to the discussion is that they can sell them to
a non-EU airlines without restriction and that therefore the EU rules do
nothing to restrict a non EU airline flying to/from that airport.

Replace LHR with any other EU airport and the non EU airline with a UK one
if we leave the UK and you get the answer that the EU rules do nothing to
stop a UK airline flying to any EU airport were the UK to leave the EU.

But you claimed that the UK leaving the EU would mean that UK airlines would
be restricted in their rights to fly to the EU.

You still haven't presented any evidence of this.

tim




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Roland Perry