<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by verhalen:
But are those European / Asian carriers making enough money to sustain their F/J service at its current levels in the long run ? I think AA is betting that they are not.</font>
it's an open question. how long can BA and AF keep things up? If they get to indefinitely collect monopoly rents on their routes from LON/PAR to far-flung former colonies plus Japan and China, perhaps quite a while. The Asian carriers have perhaps less scope to play this card.