Jan@BRU: LH is clearly asking SN to assume a certain role, which seems to be to focus on Africa. OS supposedly is leveraging CEE, LX the captive CH market. In LH's eyes having 200+ in the back of the bus is an awful lot of seats to fill that traditionally don't really yield much. If you look at similar sized aircraft in the LH goup, the most they put in the back is 195. Filling the back of the bus consistently and profitably is the challenge, and I suppose the want to copy the VFR philosophy that works well US-India/CEE/NME for LH & OS onto the SN operation and fill the front with EU/UN & Business traffic to NYC.