Missing European Airlines from LHR

I am using LHR but there are loads of European Airlines not accessible? Can’t have EasyJet, Ryanair, Jet2, Whizz Air, Titan, Thompson, Play, Olympic Airlines, Norwegian, Lauda, HiFly, Helvetic, Flybe, Edelweiss, Condor, Buzz to name a few, even Air New Zealand isn’t available to fly to LHR?

Any reason why?

Also the only airports I can get to load are LHR and SXM, all others that are unlocked will not load, I cleared the cache, uninstalled and reinstalled the game and still no joy :frowning:

Out of all those airlines, only Flybe regularly flew to LHR, so won’t be present there. As to why Flybe isn’t a contract at LHR however is something I know people have questioned in the past, and even more baffling when you consider the fact the Dash 8 that was a regular visitor to LHR is for some reason only available as an event plane.

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it’s also becuase a lot of low cost airlines don’t fly to LHR

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Most of those airlines go to gatwick (LGW)

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that’s true, & becuase LHR is more expanesive to get contracts to LHR, & LGW isn’t to big so that why many of the low cost/reigonal airlines go their.

Well yea Gatwick, but usually Stansted and Luton, (Obviously EasyJet Tui and Wizz have a hub at Gatwick still) as Jet2 have hubs at both, EasyJet has a hub at Luton, Ryanair has a hub at Stansted, and Wizz at LUT.

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Gatwick is quite big. Its the UKs second busiest airport! Has 2 runways that they use (although not at the same time) and gets loads of international routes! (Counting all routes not in Europe) 32 on a random Thursday in may!

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i read a wiki airtcle about cathay pacific & they use to operate to gatwick but they termainited the route

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Yeah pre covid. Hope Cathay and Virgin start back.

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You use to get Air New Zealand via Singapore, Shame they removed it really. As for other airlines no chance at Heathrow, now if they did Gatwick or Stansted you could have them

I can’t see Virgin returning to Gatwick, but fingers crossed Cathay Pacific does.

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i heard that air new zealend will reusme back to LGW

Not resuming. They’ve never gone to Gatwick. They went to Heathrow so maybe the article said resuming service to London. But yeah they were going to start it this year but they delayed it till next spring.

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Well they started off flying to Gatwick in 1982, only switching to Heathrow in 1994. Hopefully we get to see them in game flying from LAX or Singapore to LHR. Slightly irrelevant to the conversation but for Sydney it would be nice to get some of the European Airlines flying in via Singapore or Hong Kong like KLM or Air France considering they used to do it up to the mid-80s.

Hmm. Didn’t know that!

Yes I heard that as well, next year apparently.

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