From the airline that brought you a flight attendent who wags her finger at you, Delta are hell bent on increasing their capaicty at Heathrow by bidding for the slots that have come up due to the OneWorld Joint Venture.
Their proposals are to increase LHR-BOS to 2 flights a day, and LHR-MIA to one flight a day.
Delta bleats that it’ll benefit SkyTeam as it’s the smallest alliance at Heathrow (Oneworld carriers hold 47% of Heathrow slots, followed by Star Alliance at 25% of Heathrow’s slots. SkyTeam, however, only has a 5%) – which is true, however, if you just care to cross the channel, there are two major SkyTeam hubs there – Paris Charles De Gaulle (and Air France hub) and Amsterdam Schipol (a KLM/Delta hub) – so that argument doesn’t wash with me alas…
If Delta succeeds in gaining necessary approvals for the proposed service, flights would begin on 27 March 2011.
Is there room for another entrant in the market or will Delta gain from OneWorlds loss? We’ll know soon enough….
