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Re: American Airlines & Gol Negotiating Partnership

Considering Gol is somewhere between an LCC & a cheap FSC, with no J class within Brazil & a mere Euro-style J (middle seat blocked) to neighbouring countries, this is consistent with AA's nosedive in customer service, not to mention Gol does not have the continental coverage LA have. Local ...

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Re: Updated: Japan allocates Haneda international slots to 9 nations

Japan is not Singapore, not Hong-Kong, not Taiwan : it is one of Asia's two long-standing economic giants. With 126.8 million high purchasing power citizens, no less : not 5.6, not 7.4, not 24 millions respectively. With 51,5 million, SKorea is some 40% of Japan. Thus, if either Japanese airlines s...

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Re: Boeing examines GEnX powered 767

I think I created posts on that 13, 7, 2, 1 years ago. First I had the Dreamliner crowd all over me (787 = 767 replacement) later on the MOM/NMA crowd. Always felt it was a reasonable idea. The 767 is 30t lighter than the A330/787, right sized, got significant updated for the -400ER and KC-46. And ...

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Re: Etihad will return to profitability by 2023

Neither EY nor EK are "the national carrier" of the UAE, because the UAE are a confederation of 7 sovereign states (except for defence & Central Bank/monetary policy ), called emirates in local parlance. While Abu Dhabi is indeed the political capital of the UAE, 3 of the 7 emirates h...

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Re: Etihad will return to profitability by 2023

Only a government subsidized airline has the luxury / “get out of jail free” card of 3-4 years to “return to profitability”. Any struggling private sector airline would be far more aggressive in its stance if it planned to survive to be be around in 4 years. Then all US airlines would still be arou...

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Re: Air France Paris to Kinshasa to Brazzaville to Paris

Not a single one of your examples is a triangular route. And Cathay stops in YVR, not YYC, on their way to and from JFK. Yes, it is YVR ;) Economically , they are triangular, as carrier flies paying pax from origin to all those destinations ( as opposed to fuel stops only ) I fully understand av-ge...

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Re: Buta Airlines. Experiences?

Off-topic, but I chuckled, no offense meant :
I can hear the roar of Japanese tourists laughing at the name 豚航空 , buta means pig, no lipstick can help against that !

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Re: Aeroflot Cancels 787 Order, Cut in Production Rate?

there already is a thread on this opened hours before. Plus it is no news

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Re: Air France Paris to Kinshasa to Brazzaville to Paris

EK also does triangle routes in Africa (or used to) Triangular routes are an elastic conception, any stop-over with pax to both end destinations qualify, nevermind if in addition they have pick-up rights. EK had & still has many such extended triangular routes, usually priced cheaper than the d...

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Re: Etihad will return to profitability by 2023

Etihad Airways, the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates Bold : my emphasis. With all the talks on a-net about the ME3, the geopolitics of the UAE should be clear to all av-geeks, so they 1) avoid buzz expressions 2) understand why EY & EK are unlikely to be merged in the foreseeable fu...

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Re: Aeroflot future plans following significant 787 cancelled order.

I read that they are planning to retire their A330s...But if they do that, won't the gap between their A320 series and the A350s be too big? That is a big gap indeed. Perhaps they plan to order the C929, first flight scheduled for 2025, and deliveries from 2027, if they keep the timeline. https://e...

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Re: Minister: THAI "Financial Status Critical"; Rehab Program Failing

Some government owned airlines are run well, other not so much. You should also consider that some airlines (ME3) might only look shinny on the outside. Accounting standards and audits aren't necessarily comparable internationally making profit/loss statements less convincing and transparent, finan...

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Re: Minister: THAI "Financial Status Critical"; Rehab Program Failing

Like others mentioned much of the problem with the trio of SE Asian airlines GA-MH-TG centers on government hand in the operation. The way things stand even the most efficient aircraft won't change the incompetence of management at these carriers nor structural problems like being bloated and patro...

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Re: Starlux announces first flight date and routes

Is the Taiwanese market big enough for three large full service carriers, though? Considering TransAsia went bye-bye a few years ago (though that was more of their own fault than due to the market). GE had been around for 65 years, and it was two ATR crashes that did them in. I do believe that Taiw...

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Re: Peruvian Suspended All Flights

This might be why LATAM Peru planes are on the Chilean registry and Avianca Peru planes on the USA registry. Are these planes considered imported? Depends on the aircraft. LA(TAM) Peru also have Peruvian capital. I remember reading an article a few years ago detailing how the LAN consortium are ver...

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Re: Easyjet forced to compensate for weather related cancellation

When i worked for Southwest (the darling of a.net) we never ever gave compensation for weather. Even if the particular flight I was working was part of the domino effect. You cant change nature, you can only let it run its course. While I usually do agree with consumer friendly laws and court rulin...

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Re: DOT tentatively approves Hawaiian-JAL JV, but without ATI

Fear of the Honu. The JV was the strategic response. Out of the frying pan and into the fire. NH continues to premium-price the Honu ride, at least for FITs. GIT wholesale pricing is probably very different. The A380 effect & A380 capacity. Just to say it seems to be working enough for the two ...

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Re: AS & AA Seperation (Essentially) Coming March 1, 2020

Time for merger mania. A combination of AA & AS. I think it is time for AA & AS to get together, if done right. AA needs a return to focus on customer service and operational excellence. AS has both of those. AS has lost its way with its recent network changes that make little to zero sense...

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Re: AA/oneworld Needs a Win

Thank you for excellent insights about market economy, among all noise. Thank you. It's been like preaching in the desert. Finance & economics modelling taught at graduate universities are nothing like what one reads in profane newspapers, main stream ones included. Engineers & mathematicia...

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Re: AA/oneworld Needs a Win

The US3 are charging fares that the market will pay. That is Capitalism. Market economy is not just about costs & prices, but also about transparent information , where perfect & symmetric are well defined adjectives. In case you have read me elsewhere, I also criticize LH, QR, EK and any p...

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Re: Delta will create a mega global alliance?

Soon will we see: Delta Latin (ex-LATAM) Delta UK(ex-Virgin Atlantic) Delta Europa (ex-Air Europa) Delta Arabia (ex-MEA) Delta Indian (ex-Jet Airways) Delta Pacific (ex-Korean Air) Delta China (ex-China Eastern) Delta African (ex-Kenya Airways) Delta Australian (ex-Virgin Australian) Westjet and Ae...

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Re: AA/oneworld Needs a Win

For the amount of investment capital airlines have to put in, for the amount of profit that they get is low and not out of the realm of other industries. Correct, that is why aviation is defined as a " non-contestable market " because of both high entry barriers & high exit barriers (...

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Re: AA/oneworld Needs a Win

Unfortunately airfares in the last thirty years don’t agree with your premise US transcon (4-5h depending on the route ) in Y with the US3 is usually around $400 Within the EU, for a similar distance, I've flown CDG - SVO (3h30) on LH for less than 150€ ( true with a connection in FRA ) These days ...

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Re: AA/oneworld Needs a Win

Unfortunately airfares in the last thirty years don’t agree with your premise Fine-tune your perceptions : US transcon (4-5h depending on the route ) in Y with the US3 is usually around $400 Within the EU, for a similar distance, I've flown CDG - SVO (3h30) on LH for less than 150€ ( true with a co...

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Re: LATAM MAD hub to move/change due to DL acquisition?

This is the third or fourth different thread this has come up in: Latam have already said they intend to maintain their existing partnership with IB and BA (and QF as well for that matter). Yes, so many me-too threads, good for traffic & advertisers. Well, We'll see if LA keep up their word. QF...

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Re: LATAM MAD hub to move/change due to DL acquisition?

I could see maybe an increase of flights to CDG. CDG is currently served from GRU and LIM is served from AMS. There is no link between SCL and AMS/CDG so I could see a SCL-CDG route added soon. AF already fly a daily 777 to SCL & KLM a 787. I can see a LA flight SCL-CDG seconding the GRU-CDG fl...

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Re: AA/oneworld Needs a Win

Am I delusionnal if I say that's the 3rd or 4th time I see that same post ? Because it is the only way to win. The LEVIATHAN is not the way to win for consumers. It is the way for virtual oligo-/monopolies. People here speak of open skies, JVs, cross-participations, free-trade & the like withou...

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Re: AA/oneworld Needs a Win

Is it a time for a global Qatar Airways? Qatari American (ex-American) Qatari African (ex Royal Air Maroc) Qatari Atlantic (ex BA & Aer Lingus) Qatari Europa (ex Iberia) Qatari Indian (ex Malaysian airline) Qatari Australian (ex Qantas) Qatari Russian (ex S7) Qatari China (ex Cathay) Qatari Pac...

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Re: Does anyone really think Istanbul will become the world's busiest in the near future?

new IST has teething problems, way too big, no airside or landside train running along the HUGE terminal. Pax are complaining, enough are missing their tight connections ( those under the hour ) just because walking lengths are worse than say at Barajas MAD for those who know. Meaning that frequent ...

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Re: Delta will create a mega global alliance?

Agreed, AA are a shAAme to themselves by any metric, not just the IFE screens gone in domestic flights, bad food & negative customer service. I was not suggesting the ME3 or CN3 actually buying into the US3, but showing the outcry that would produce. DL into LATAM should stir the same ( or any U...

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Re: Delta buying 20% of LATAM

Apparently the Chilean Supreme Court blocked an attempt by LATAM to have closer ties with AA and BA. Will Delta's smaller presence in South America be less of a hindrance to a close relationship? At least they did their homework at last. I was always against the LAN & TAM merger/acquisition bec...

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Re: Delta will create a mega global alliance?

It's actually very bad for consumers. I had a favourite multicity circuit these past years involving LATAM & AA half the normal price up to early this year. Then for last 4 months just couldn't get it back on any of the agregators, now I know why. So I found another circuitous routing for sligh...

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Re: Part of future new departures hall in EZE collapses

The article actually states that for political reasons, construction was speeded, structure had many more workers, materials & machinery than originally planned. The collapsed structure was a scafholding in the new tube-shaped Terminal of EZE, called the "Zeppelin". Which reminds us of...

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Re: 2019 Airbus Global market forcast

Good point for J in EK ;) Technically, I don't see relevance either, I was thinking more in terms of that unconscious Zeitgeist thing, ideas "being in the air", as to why Airbus went ahead with the project & Boeing didn't ( despite plans for a MD-12), both being subject to the same mar...

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Re: 2019 Airbus Global market forcast

There has not been any three aisle aircraft category so far. He said more than two. The 747 has three aisles and the A380 has four. In most cases yes, but depends on upper deck configuration : EY's A380s only have 3. But you are absolutely right in pointing out that the A380 was designed as a "...

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Re: 2019 Airbus Global market forcast

Why did those aircraft disappear? Perhaps because there has never been any market. You answered your own question. Then why did those clever people, supported by hundreds of a betters, make a market forecast demonstrating the "existence" of the market and launched the A380? Because of mar...

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Re: What's next for mainstream jet engines?

At those ratios, B can always max enlarged hamster-pouched engines & put them over the wings, Russian style : safer with max ground clearance & way cheaper than a new frame. With the late 7M10, I don't see a replacement soon, say not before 2030.

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Re: Thai govt ask for airlines to utilize more widebodies at Bangkok DMK

Between DMK and BKK we are talking about a market with more than 100mil passengers annually, so the idea that a single airport can service the metro area is not realistic. DMK is here to stay, and Bangkok like many global cities will have a multi-airport system. There is actually a third, UTP, to s...

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Re: Qatar Airways Reports $632 Million Loss

Just one thing to note, I recently booked two LAX-BKK round trips for later this year, QR were by far the cheapest in J, $2200 each round trip, that is LAX-DOH-BKK-DOH-LAX, for $1100 each way, including a hotel room in DOH to use during the layovers. With the yields on those flights it is no small ...

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Re: JFK/SWF Aircraft Visitors for UN General Assembly

*in the morning IMU Iran will not attend as Trump has denied Visa to the relevant Iran officials. UN headquarters need to be elsewhere. Perhaps a location more collegial to the UN politics—Tehran, Pyongyang or Beijing would do nicely. Plus removing would end the lawbreaking leeches from hogging par...

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Re: Qatar Airways Reports $632 Million Loss

Atlanta is a huge economic power in South-East US : UPS, Home Depot, AT&T Mobility, Coca Cola are only some of the major companies headquartered there, and ATL capture much of the traffic in neighbouring states other than FL. As long as ATL is not served by other ME3 or DL does not fly to the Mi...

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Re: Ed Bastian: SkyTeam Failed

I opened a thread that was sadly locked because only Virgin's expansion was seen while I was detailing the chronology of something way more important : DL & AF control 80% of VS, DL & VS are expanding routes & frequencies between JFK, EWR, ATL, BOS to LHR & LGW, VS announced they wan...

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Re: Qatar Airways Reports $632 Million Loss

Please note it is not my intention to pick on you, Lightsaber, but if anyone wants to understand what is actually happening in that part of the Gulf, there are specifics people gladly overlook. So let me share some more items I have observed, fascinating stuff, but not enough for me to live there. Q...

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Re: Qatar Airways Reports $632 Million Loss

I personally believe haphazard expansion is a problem at QR. I personally believe they have too diversied of a fleet. I would speculate Y class loyalty is not a root cause. 1. QR do nothing haphazard, specially with the blocade. Nor do EK. Do not conflate the ME3 nor project negative assumptions on...

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Re: Virgin Atlantic expansion : a Skyteam hub at LHR ?

from memory I don't believe they're currently profitable and hasn't been for a while. Committing some $100 million upwards to alliance is just like a suicide. Not withstanding all the massive expansion BS (which I highly doubt), they have to get themselves profitable. Group is profitable, with ups ...

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Re: Virgin Atlantic expansion : a Skyteam hub at LHR ?

Whoops, I conflated again VS with VA, sorry. But I disagree the broader subject, the BIG PICTURE in the title's second half, is already discussed : 1. I suspect a concerted Skyteam wide effort into LHR , not just DL, but with AF-KLM next door, to make it a Skyteam HUB , one more after SEA, BOS, ICN....

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Re: Thai govt ask for airlines to utilize more widebodies at Bangkok DMK

Suvarnabhumi airport is actually prounounced (su-wan-na-poom) Rank Airport Location Founding Year 1 College Park Airport Maryland, US 1909 2 Ljungbyhed Airport Sweden 1910 3 Hamburg Airport Germany 1911 4 Shoreham Airport UK 1911 5 Bucharest Aurel Vlaicu Airport Romania 1912 6 Bremen Airport Germa...

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Virgin Atlantic: A Skyteam hub at LHR ?

Title may sound clickbait, but consider all the following : 1. In July, VA announced they wanted to become the UK's second Flag carrier, rivalling British Airways for capacity and status https://simpleflying.com/virgin-atlantic-heathrow-growth/ 2. That was following VA's April declaration to the Bri...

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Re: SAS growth in the future

The split hub thing is the problem. ARN is the logical point for going east, CPH for going south and the Americas. Not quite. Economics say ARN is too up north to be a hub for any flights from EU countries below to connect elsewhere in Scandinavia. In addition, CPH saves precious combined fuel &...

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Re: MC-21 Development Thread

I think that the only way the MC21 can be successful is if the entire program is sold to a Western entity that has the support network and the cash to motivate the supply chain. If I were Putin, I would give the Japanese a call. The MC-21 is a fabulous aircraft, they can make quick cash selling the...

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