Originally Posted by jsloan

Only if someone is desperate enough to sell UA an LHR frequency each year. Slots at LHR are among the most valuable assets in the industry.

I suspect this is not a new slot, but rather a repurposing of an existing slot, unless there were any Russian carriers with LHR rights that the airport cancelled and bid out.

Originally Posted by angetenar

Aeroflot had a lot of LHR slots, did it not? At any rate, how could UA repurpose the 22 existing landing/takeoff slot pairs into 23 daily flights? Unless I am misinterpreting something.