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Old Jul 11, 2013 | 3:34 pm
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kanderson1965
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Originally Posted by prof
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Originally Posted by kanderson1965


With all the talk of new aircraft and possibilities of new lucrative routes, why not just bin all these mid-haul routes to provide extra long-haul slots?




Because some of us actually like to go to those places?

And anyway distance doesn't necessarily correlate to profit.
The reason I pose the question is that there seems to be a disproportionately large amount of complaints on the mid-haul routes (take the monster TLV thread for instance). I had assumed from this that the mid-haul model was not working for BA, so a return to the long-haul and European operations may be a better bet when working from a slot constrained base with a limited mid-haul fleet.
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