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Rumor: Germanwings To Fly Long-haul With A340-300s

PlaneHunter From Germany, joined Mar 2006, 6183 posts, RR: 79
Posted (5 years 7 months 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 8381 times:

According to a rumor on a German aviation forum, Germanwings is planning to start long-haul flights from CGN with two used A340-300 aircraft (ex-Virgin Atlantic) in all-Economy configuration. Kuala Lumpur is mentioned as first destination - allegedly an attempt to prevent Air Asia X from entering the market.

Link:
http://www.airliners.de/forum/viewto...d=a775366abd633dde36a17b9810391b09

The topic is intensively discussed on that forum, most members express serious doubts...however, 4U starting long-haul flights is a most interesting idea.

PH

[Edited 2007-10-21 04:00:29]

Nothing's worse than flying the same reg twice!

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PADSpot From Germany, joined Jan 2005, 1676 posts, RR: 5
Reply 1, posted (5 years 7 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 8352 times:

Quoting PlaneHunter (Thread starter):
Kuala Lumpur is mentioned as first destination - allegedly an attempt to prevent Air Asia X from entering the market.

I wonder about the prospects of that market. BKK would make perfectly sense, thinking of the whole backbacker crowd headed from Europe to Bangkok, but KUL?

Thorben From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (5 years 7 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 8266 times:

Interesting to see them expand like that. CGN is their biggest hub, so it would make some sense. However, SXF is closer to KUL.

Columba From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 6798 posts, RR: 5
Reply 3, posted (5 years 7 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 8168 times:

IF true (which is very doubtful) I would also see this as an attempt against AB/LT which will start longhaul flights from DUS. LH has no longer DE for cheap longhaul flights so 4U is the only choice for this, enough A340 pilots are there that could be transfered to 4U and LHT can take care of maintenance. It is possible but still I have my doubts.
Nevertheless a 4U A340 would be a good looking aircraft - at least from the outside Smile

It will forever be a McDonnell Douglas MD 80 , Boeing MD 80 sounds so wrong

Thorben From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (5 years 7 months 2 days ago) and read 7780 times:

Quoting Columba (Reply 3):
IF true (which is very doubtful) I would also see this as an attempt against AB/LT which will start longhaul flights from DUS.

So, where is their answer to AB/LT starting long-haul flights from TXL?

Columba From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 6798 posts, RR: 5
Reply 5, posted (5 years 7 months 2 days ago) and read 7736 times:

Quoting Thorben (Reply 4):
So, where is their answer to AB/LT starting long-haul flights from TXL?

Wait for the A346 stationed in SXF Smile

It will forever be a McDonnell Douglas MD 80 , Boeing MD 80 sounds so wrong

Airevents From Germany, joined Jan 2002, 810 posts, RR: 3
Reply 6, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 7510 times:

As much as it sounds a bit like an April Fools joke to me, it would make some sense to me if we look at the strategy of Lufthansa so far: Focus on their hubs FRA, ZRH (via Swiss) and MUC plus to some extent DUS for high-yield premium traffic and concentrate lowcost traffic elsewhere via their subsidiary Germanwings. The fact that they are basing three A340s in DUS next spring is clearly addressing competition from US carriers now flying direct to smaller airports in Europe from their hubs and to Air Berlin / LTU who already have a number of direct longhaul flights, in particular out of DUS. The idea to let Germanwings operate a number of A340s on touristic lower-yield routes would rather take a piece of the cake away from Emirates / Etihad and other Middle East carriers offering cheap deals to Southeast Asia than from Lufthansa´s own customer base. Plus it would be a clear signal to Air Asia X, Oasis etc. who might at some point open flights to Germany: "hey guys, we are watching you and ready to react or even act before you get flights started". Lufthansa has the expertise to operate longhaul flights and could easily transfer a couple of crews to Germanwings to get things started quickly.

www.airevents.com

F.pier From Italy, joined Aug 2000, 1517 posts, RR: 11
Reply 7, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 7493 times:

I think that if everything is true, I can consider to fly that airline somewhere, if fares are ok.

Thomas_Jaeger From Switzerland, joined Apr 2002, 2266 posts, RR: 31
Reply 8, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 7239 times:

This is nothing but nonsense just like the other thread on about the Dubai-Szczecin route by Emirates. There was a huge airliners.de community meet in HAM yesterday and some of the guys there used my and other users' logins to spread these two rumours that were some sort of running gags during the long and interesting evening. So simply forget about it ... I am very sorry for any confusion caused by this.

Swiss aviation news junkie living all over the place

PlaneHunter From Germany, joined Mar 2006, 6183 posts, RR: 79
Reply 9, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 7220 times:

Quoting Thomas_Jaeger (Reply 8):
This is nothing but nonsense just like the other thread on about the Dubai-Szczecin route by Emirates.

While Dubai-Szczecin indeed sounds like a joke, a new German LCC long-haul venture would still make sense, as some users have pointed out. Probably we will see it happen within the next years.

PH

Nothing's worse than flying the same reg twice!

Express1 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 10, posted (5 years 7 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 6784 times:

Is Germanwings ready to take on the long haul market? my thoughts to this is i very much doubt it.

dave

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