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welcome to the dregs of the last
Wendover video this is Heathrow Airport
it's the busiest and biggest airports in
the UK and for complicated reasons they
used to have a flight six times a week
to Cardiff Wales that no passengers were
allowed to take well you need to know
about Heathrow is that it has only two
runways
whereas Chicago O'Hare Airport which
flies about as many passengers yearly as
Heathrow has seven and if my advance
differential calculus class taught me
anything it's that seven is more than
two would be almost as much of a lie
saying I took advanced differential
calculus would be saying that Heathrow
is quiet and calm in fact it's the exact
antonyms of these words it's rowdy and
tempestuous no what it is is crowded
really crowded super crowded I have the
best words because of that Airlines
can't just go and decide they want to
start flying there they need to own a
slot pair these are rights for Airlines
to land and take off at the airport at a
particular time and they're tradable and
sellable because this is the main
airport of one of the world's largest
and most important cities there's a huge
amount of demand from Airlines to fly
there but there are only 650 daily
slaughterers because of economics that
means prices are high really high for
example up until 2016 Kenya Airways
owned a slaw here that gave them the
right to operate a flight landing at
Heathrow at 6:30 a.m. and departing at
8:25 a.m. this is the most popular time
of day to operate flights as it's when
overnight flights from the US and Asia
tend to arrive and Oman Air flying from
Muscat Oman wanted to operate an
overnight flight so they bought this law
pair from Kenya Airways for 75 million
dollars this was the highest amount ever
paid for a Heathrow slot pair but they
still regularly sell for tens of
millions of dollars
so once airlines have them they don't
want to lose them airlines are required
to use their slot 80% of the time or
else will be dissolved and given to the
next airline on the waiting list and
that was what led to this ghost flight
to Cardiff in early 2007 British
Mediterranean Airways permanently
canceled their flight to Tashkent
Uzbekistan due to long-term civil unrest
but because of that the Heathrow sloppy
airs they had been using to fly that
flight sat empty the Tashkent flight was
scheduled to leave Heathrow at 2:35 p.m.
and arrive back the next day at noon but
to keep their slots they don't have to
use them for any particular flight they
just have to use them therefore british
mediterranean flew their small a320 over
to cardiff at 2:35 p.m. and returned the
next day at 12:00 noon
six days a week on each flight the plane
had no passengers only the crew which
seems to break the well-respected
business strategy of making money but
since the cancellation of the Tashkent
route was last-minute according to the
airline it would have been too expensive
to set up contracts for baggage handlers
higher gate agents find translators and
do everything else needed to actually
carry passengers to Cardiff for the few
months they had to hold these slots
needless to say environmental advocates
were not amused and it soon became a big
scandal but who cares about the earth
anyways we can always move to the third
world countries British Mediterranean
Airways wasn't the only airline to
protect their slots at Heathrow with
empty flights in 2004 Qantas Airways
bought two slot pairs from fly B for 25
million dollars but until they were able
to set up the flights to Australia which
needed to operate by a Singapore through
the distance they needed to hold on to
the slots their solution was at least
slightly more practical as an Australian
airline they weren't allowed to operate
domestic flights within the UK so they
chartered a small 112 seat British
Aerospace 146 from a British airline to
fly two flights a day up to Manchester
you were only allowed to book this
flight as a connection to or from a
Qantas flight to Australia and the
airline already had an agreement with
British Airways to offer connecting
flights to Manchester so this flight
supposedly operated on some days with
only two or three passengers still two
passengers are better at than none
these law setting flights certainly do
still exist but they're often more
subtle like how Airlines will in winter
when overall demand is lower decrease
the number of flights to their furthest
away destinations which are expensive to
fly to and increase the number of
flights that they're near as too cheap
to fly to destinations now as we've
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