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19/11/2012
Virgin Win London To Scotland Flight Routes
Virgin Atlantic has been offered the rights to operate Heathrow links to Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
Sir Richard Branson's airline bid successfully for the London landing slots formerly operated by BMI.
The slots were released to others by regulators as a condition of allowing the takeover earlier this year of BMI by British Airways' owner IAG.
Virgin Atlantic intends to start operating the new services from the end of next March.
BA already flew between Heathrow and Scotland in competition with BMI, and the European Commission ruled that the London airport's scarce and valuable slots had to be released to other airlines for links to Edinburgh and Aberdeen, as well as Cairo and Moscow, where BMI and BA had formerly competed.
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Sir Richard Branson's airline bid successfully for the London landing slots formerly operated by BMI.
The slots were released to others by regulators as a condition of allowing the takeover earlier this year of BMI by British Airways' owner IAG.
Virgin Atlantic intends to start operating the new services from the end of next March.
BA already flew between Heathrow and Scotland in competition with BMI, and the European Commission ruled that the London airport's scarce and valuable slots had to be released to other airlines for links to Edinburgh and Aberdeen, as well as Cairo and Moscow, where BMI and BA had formerly competed.
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