Other European Frequent Flyer Programs - CSA Withdrawal of service

Travelled MAN/PRG this week on 737/400-150 seats
10 seats empty in Y and full in J
Yet next week this route will be discontinued-how many do they want on their planes?

One flight is not representative of a route's performance. While the flight you were on was full, perhaps the return service was not and perhaps the yield even on full flights was not enough to save the MAN-PRG flight from being discontinued...

I've also wondered at times about this. They used to have 2xdaily to DUB, even having a press release that this was one of their most popular routes. Then they cut back to 1x daily with lousy times and now I think it is totally gone. Granted, the crisis hit Ireland hard and a full plane does not guarantee yield but still..

But its yield that is king... Filling a cabin is the easy part. A full flight does not mean a flight/route is profitable. In the DUB-PRG case they faced competition from both EI and FR, not a good recipe for maing money on a route.

In the DUB-PRG case they faced competition from both EI and FR, not a good recipe for maing money on a route.

Plus a route like this will most likely have a lot of vacation travelers and Czech (+ maybe Slovakian as well) workers working in Ireland (anybody who's visited IE in the last 4 years or so will now what I mean!) - both groups that use very cheap tickets. Plus especially the last group has diminished after the Irish economy went down the drain.

Service to North America from Prague will be over soon. Really sad, to say the least.
:mad:

Today's PRG/MAN flight OK646 ( final trip ) 1 seat empty 737/500