In message , at 16:45:18 on Sat, 18 Jun
2016, tim... remarked:
The two airlines from our side would undoubtedly be BA and Virgin.
Market closed to any others.

so what, 4 airlines flying to LHR, plus various options options via
other airports looks like enough competition to me

Most people would disagree.

seems to be enough in the "mobile" market

There's not complete agreement about that, actually. But obviously they
are very different markets.

One of the biggest problems with only having two US based airlines at
Heathrow would be a reduced number of places on their side of the water
served by direct flights.

It's our asset we are negotiating away.

But without agreement from both, we could lose much of the asset.

Only if we are stupid negotiators

I believe that you do this sort of thing for a living. I don't
understand why you think we would give it away so easily

Because if you have little bargaining power you can't insist the
other side agrees with your point of view.

but we don't have little bargaining power, that is the point

What power do you think we have over the FAA?
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Roland Perry