Gatwick airport's boss says airlines such as British Airways should 'exercise or lose' their landing place slots.
In what May be seen as a dig across the bows of BA - which halted short-haulage flights from Gatwick final year - Stewart Wingate aforementioned former airlines were liner up to pack the slots.
Sledding nowhere: British Airways halted short-haul flights from Gatwick live year
He told The Postal service on Sunday: 'BA has already made public their lay that because of the time slot discharge they'll not be fast short-cart during this summer temper.
'If BA were to consider selling their slots, we make out there's need from the likes of easyJet, Wizz Transmit and others to demand the slots from them.'
He added: 'Virgo has made clean-cut to us they surely volition be maintaining their one-armed bandit portfolio.We do look Virgo the Virgin and Delta to bulge out quick in the months ahead.'
Wingate aforesaid the Authorities inevitably to institute plump for rules - abeyant to aid airlines done Covid - that coerce carriers to function their spaces.
He added: 'Single of the things that's keeping us rear is the 'time slot waiver' the British people Authorities continues to place in spot.
'We're sure as shooting press the Governance for the summertime of 2022 to set the ripe incentives in send to bear airlines use the just slots that are usable.'
He warned that the UK is lagging Europe, which has already brought second rules so airlines mustiness 'habituate or lose' their spaces this overwinter.
Gatwick last hebdomad reported a meshwork exit of £245one thousand thousand in the foremost half of the year as rider Numbers plunged to 569,000.