Originally Posted by
yvrcnx
I have found enough information on their product with regards to on board service etc, my main concern is, how is their business model doing, will they be around in the current economical climate, which still isn't that great and I imagine business class travel is still down, making it more difficult for an airline like OpenSkies to make it work.
It is loss-making and BA did look at disposing of its stake (in whole and in part) in OpenSkies a while ago, but decided to keep it. No-one can make any guarantees, but there are no signs at the moment that it will be sold or closed down. In any event, you would be reaccommodated on BA mainline if anything happened.
This is what WW had to say in November last year:
In relation to OpenSkies, the promise of OpenSkies has improved very significantly in recent months. We're seeing very healthy load factors, and they've also been able to deliver good yields as well. So the operation, while behind business plan, but then so are we, is performing very strongly, and has performed very strongly in the last few months. And in fact, I'm more optimistic about OpenSkies today based on its performance over the last three months to four months and what we see in terms its future booking profile than I would have been six months ago.
And this was Dale's blog:
http://blog.flyopenskies.com/back-from-the-other-side/
It's obviously not grown in the way that was expected, and the plan now seems to be to grow a hub at ORY rather than NYC.