Originally Posted by
wanaflyforless
There are not enough passengers than want to fly between a single US city and a single India city who are also willing to pay extra for a non-stop to profitably fly very many ultra-longhauls. It costs much more (because of fuel) to fly ORD-HYD non-stop rather than ORD-BRU-HYD.
There may not be enough pax for nonstops to every city pair, but there are enough for some prominent city pairs.
Originally Posted by
wanaflyforless
3 steps to tranform 9W from the fringe stuggling airline they are now to a profitable world class leader:
In less than 2 years time, complete:
1) Join St ar Alliance
I find it difficult to believe that people can't stop themselves from injecting their personal needs/wishful thinking. I understand every one, would like 9W top join their alliance. Jet Airways joining Star Alliance is no more than wishful thinking as long as AI is in the alliance.
Originally Posted by
wanaflyforless
2) Codeshare 100% of SN's flight network.
That would work. It's neither necessary for 9W to fly non-stops from an Indian city to every EU city, nor can it do that as per limitations of India-Belgium bilateral agreement.
Originally Posted by
wanaflyforless
3) Fly their own planes (and ask to SN codeshare) the top 20 US airports to/from the top 10 India airports.
ATL/ORD/LAX/DFW/DEN/JFK/EWR/IAH/LAS/SFO/PHX/CLT/MIA/MCO/MSP/SEA/DTW/PHL/BOS/IAD
<-->
BRU
<--->
BOM/DEL/MAA/CCU/BLR/HYD/GAU/AMD/PNQ/COK
Map
If you are saying that 9W it's own planes to 20 top U.S. destinations via BRU, it's a non sgtarter as 9W is limited to only 21 frequencies to BRU.
Originally Posted by
wanaflyforless
If Star Alliance will not agree to #1; go ahead with steps #2 and #3 anyway - plan should still work.
The above plan provides one-stop service between 200 city pairs on 9W metal and more than 1000 city pairs when you combine the SN and proposed 9W networks.
Do the math.