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Not everyone wants the slot freeze, it seems

Written by Aviation Advocacy on . Posted in TWTWTW

The legacy carriers fought long and hard to get the winter season slot freeze in place – perhaps giving up much in return for what may be a one season gain.  But now it turns out that not even all the legacy carriers are sure that this is worth it. A Japanese airline is now letting it be known that they are adamant that they disagree with this.  This is curious, and rather begs the question of why?  There might be a few reasons: perhaps the Japanese carriers have become devotees of the free and open market system and the intellectual impurity of the freeze is offence to them.  Right.  Alternatively, they want to snap up some bargains when slots are left unused.  Maybe.  Or, there is a fear that the traditional legacy Japanese carriers have lost so much of their clout with the Japanese Dept of Transport and the JCAB (which anyone who has dealt with will know stands for Justifying Considerable Additional Bureaucacy) that they could not guarantee that Japan too might impose the conditions on such a freeze that the Europeans have imposed – a full review. Answers on a postcard please.

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