Originally Posted by
CAlex
Might be doable, but is it feasible? The price will not be cheap, and with the recent QF+EK relationship, you can get from Europe to Australia with just one stop in Dubai. How many would prefer a short stop in IST and then a ultra-long flight to Australia, for a possible hefty 20-30% price premium? Fuel is not getting any cheaper...
They should focus on the areas that will bring money on long-haul, and that is still the India-US route, Middle-East - US and Europe - Asia. They need to look at increasing operations in LAX, starting SFO and/or Vancouver, going to Dallas and/or Houston...
For Asia they can look at stopover in Jakarta, that is virgin territory for European carriers, and interesting stop en-route to Australia. They can also look at SIN, but that's alre, ady served well by BA/LH/SQ from Europe...
They already fly to Houston, Vancouver would be a good move as it has few flights to europe and asia. Only LHR, FRA, AMS, NRT, PEK, PVG, HKG, MNL, ICN, CTU and SYD plus a few seasonal charters to a few european cities.