Originally Posted by
chongcao
the management have said firmly that they would remain in oneworld for now as oneworld bring 300K (or 600K? Have to look for original article) passengers to AB per year.
Please, can you show a source for those figures? I would really like to see that.
In the driver’s seat is airberlin CEO Hartmut Mehdorn, who after the carrier’s joining event in Berlin this week gave a frank assessment of the situation. “Of course,” Mr Mehdorn said of British Airways preferring to receive airberlin’s feed instead of Etihad. But conversely, few oneworld carriers serve airberlin’s namesake hub. “And we would prefer a flight to Berlin. It’s a give and it’s a take.”
airberlin can extract from oneworld only as much as member airlines fly to Berlin, which the majority do not do.
I'm just wondering where such a high number of transfer passengers could possibly have come from, in a period of little more than 7 months.
That said,
AB carried just under 30 million passengers in the year to October, so a 1% (300,000) to 2% (600,000) rate of transfer from oneworld is actually a tiny percentage...