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I love the way Iceland air has developed their place in the market. It really is impressive to see
usflyer msp wrote:Asia is not one aviation market. There would be all sorts of traffic rights problems with Asian cross border mergers.
PatrickZ80 wrote:mcdu wrote:they start selling aircraft and such just to keep the balance up. They're far from there yet.
The industry is going the other way - ruthlessly efficient hubbing and removal of 5th freedoms / tags among the legacies, and cherry picked P2P for long/med haul LCCs
The nostalgic days of once per week multi-stop routes with a 747 are gone
Direct aisle access is the world standard, this is last gen and not up-to-par
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Jump to postThe question was which airports have BOTH heavy and light/metro/subway and people are listing airports like BOS which have neither....
Jump to postFiddling while Rome burns, just like Lufthansa.
IAG got it right when they forced down costs at the core airlines
The airport made a very detailed submission on its plans to the Airports Commission which might be a good place to start. The Airports Commission report itself will also be useful, as will documents uploaded to the DfT website since last week's decision. http://www.heathrow.com/company/company ... u...
Jump to post32andBelow wrote:Probably trying to fill low preforming flights. 5 More dollars than they would have made!
Wonder how the relatively low yield destination will combine with the long turnaround for route profitability? Elsewhere for other airlines you generally see only the higher yield destinations justify the plane sitting on the ground all day - e.g. GRU and JNB, whereas lower yield GIG and CPT the pla...
Jump to postA lot of people on here can't grasp the different between a multi-stop and single stop flight.....
Jump to postMIA is only 129 miles closer to <acronym title="Cape Town - International (D.F. Malan) (CPT / FACT), South Africa">CPT</acronym> than <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>, I don't buy the argument that it's the logical choice...
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Jump to postIts not an accident they picked the countries with aggressive ME3+TK. Once there is an EU wide agreement with the fair competition clause in it then if the ME3+TK violate it they can be threatened with losing access to the ENTIRE EU. That's a far bigger stick than any one country on its own could ac...
Jump to postOperating profit isn't the same as actual profit
$1.2m operating profit less financing costs, less tax means they most likely still made a huge loss
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- Domestic market shrinking 8-10% yoy - Significant amounts of USD denominated debt and leases (60% according the article below) - Large devaluation of the <acronym title="Burlington - Southeast Iowa Regional (BRL / KBRL), USA - Iowa">BRL</acronym> means servicing that debt has increased right as lo...
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Monsato - huge global agriculture business
Emerson - huge global engineering business
Peabody - big coal company with international ops
Edward Jones - big investment manager (so London traffic)
RGA - big reinsurance company (so London traffic)
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/darksnowynight" class="quote" target="_blank">darksnowynight</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i> Quoting PanHAM (Reply 1): The...
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Jump to postGreening was shunted out of the Transport Secretary chair because of her opposition to LHR, she's not exactly an objective credible source.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/a380787" class="quote" target="_blank">a380787</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>This isn't "super J" ... more likely is reha...
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Jump to postI thought the whole point of KQ getting the 787s was so they could return the not-very-old 777s which were too big for decent yield. Now they're losing 787s as well....
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/theaviator380" class="quote" target="_blank">theaviator380</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>They spend taxpayers money on ...
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Jump to postTwo main issues for <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> from the 3rd runway: 1) They will have to pay for it. There will be an element of pre-funding in the aeronautical charges which <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> as the largest airline at <acronym title="London - Heathrow ...
Jump to postNearby bigger, richer Bristol couldn't support the daily United/Continental 757 to Newark at its 6m pax airport, so the chances for Cardiff and its 1m pax airport seems like a bit of a fantasy.
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Jump to postIronic his complaints as <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> have been the main beneficiary of investment at Heathrow, the very investment that increases the passenger charges. How much have their operating costs been reduced by the consolidation in terminal 5? Heathrow is a regulated airp...
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Jump to postJosh Whilst I agree with some of your sentiments/observations here you need to find a way to present them in a more nuanced considered way, as at present you come across as fairly abrasive. For example making sweeping statements that Europeans are rude doesn't reflect well on you, a better way to ap...
Jump to postHas anyone experienced the proceedure for transit between SVO2 (now renamed F) and the new SVO3 (referred to as D)? There is nothing helpful on the Aeroflot website and information found on the web is conflicting. There seems to be a shuttle bus, but it is landside and would therefore require a visa...
Jump to postThe irony is the same dinosaur union members that are striking now are the very same people so incapable of doing their jobs properly that they caused a train to derail earlier this summer. They couldn't do their jobs properly, the company went bankrupt and now they have the nerve to strike despite ...
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Jump to postDoing some back-of-an-envelope calculations the neutral salary for the 10% band loss/2% cut seems to be about £20,000. Therefore if you earn more than this you are better off under the changes, if you earn less you are worse off. So strangely it seems that the poor are subsidising the middle class a...
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