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Fine Gael TD Kieran O’Donnell has written to Aer Lingus chief executive Sean Doyle asking in particular about the Heathrow slots, and the transatlantic services from Shannon. Its most valuable asset may be its landing slots at Heathrow, and the company has flown near-empty planes into the airport to keep those slots open. Aer Lingus operates 23 slots through its. IAG CEO WILLIE Walsh has offered a ‘cast-iron, legally binding’ guarantee that Aer Lingus’ flight-slots at Heathrow Airport will remain as they are for at least five years.

It seems that the possibilities of an IAG acquisition of Aer Lingus are increasing as the Irish carrier considers the latest offer of €2.55 a share, valuing the business at about €1.36 billion. Using our schedules and traffic analytics tools we’ve taken a quick glance at what the offer means and the top level elements of any such agreement.

While it’s clearly not all about slots at London Heathrow that is certainly a major part of the logic for IAG from what we can see. Aer Lingus are currently the third largest airline at Heathrow in terms of slots with a 3.3% share of the available pool. Any acquisition would give IAG - or perhaps in this case more appropriately, British Airways - around a 54% share of monthly frequency from the airport; some ten times more share than their nearest competitor, Virgin Atlantic. With no planned capacity increases at Heathrow for sometime, securing a further 3% share of movements for IAG at the proposed price would seem to represent a very smart strategic investment as well as commercial opportunity.

Not surprisingly the current Aer Lingus slot portfolio is evenly distributed throughout the day, with departures from 06:50 through to 22:00 and arrivals from 08:05 through to 21:15. As such there is a very attractive spread of potential timing available from which to explore potential new routes and additional frequencies for BA. Again, as you would expect, Dublin is currently the best-served of the four markets that Aer Lingus operates with 10 frequencies a day; Cork and Belfast have four each and Shannon has the balancing three frequencies.

Should IAG complete the acquisition then the focus will be around how those slots are used; some will undoubtedly still be used for services to Ireland but everyone realises that the real prize is long-haul usage of those slots.

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MANCHESTER - IAG is moving Aer Lingus transatlantic flights from Shannon to Manchester amid Irish Covid-19 non-essential travel restrictions. The airline secured 1,500 slots at Manchester airport for the summer 2021 season and is expected to base three Airbus A321LR and one A330 for flights to the United States there.

Aer Lingus Heathrow Slots Cancellation

The IAG airline struggles with tight Irish travel restrictions that kept the Airbus long range jets grounded since March and mulled withdrawing longhaul ops to the UK.
According to media reports, Aer Lingus secured 1,500 Manchester slots for S21 to be used for transatlantic flights. Aer Lingus is expected to base three A321LR for services to Boston and New York, while an A330 could serve longhaul routes to Florida or destinations on the US west coast.

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The airline is also set to join the Oneworld alliance shortly to coordinate schedules with IAG and alliance partners.

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