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Old Jan 27, 2019, 2:23 pm
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Originally Posted by WorldLux
In the 2000s, there was a reshuffle of routes and airlines. IIRC BAA squeezed LG out of Heathrow (in the 1990s they used Airbus 300 and Boeing 737 on the LHR-LUX route but they eventually downsized to ERJs, something Heathrow didn't like at all). LG moved all ops to LCY (and into VLM's/Cityjet's territory). BA switched their flights from LGW to LHR in early 2011. U2 (LGW) and FR (STN) launched flights to LUX recently.
By 2009, the year they launched flights to LCY, Luxair had downsized to Q400s and, yes, BAA were not happy about that!
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