Airline hard times boost bizav access to Heathrow
London Heathrow Airport is becoming more accessible to business aircraft operators thanks to the downturn in airline traffic.

London Heathrow Airport is becoming more accessible to business aircraft operators thanks to the downturn in airline traffic. Following the controversial abolition of opportunity slots in 1998, the UK gateway had become almost unusable for ad hoc corporate flights. But, according to Heathrow FBO Metro Business Aviation, an increasing number of slots are becoming available and slot coordination company ACL appears to be exercising greater discretion in issuing them to non-scheduled operators.

Metro’s Heathrow operations manager, John Coles, told AIN that, with airline movements down by as much as 20 percent, slots are suddenly appearing on ACL’s Web site (www.acl-org.uk). For example, at 6 p.m. on November 30 a dozen slots had become available for use between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. the following evening.

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