Originally Posted by orbitmic

Indeed. And U2 is also clearly finding it easy to make profits from routes which AF finds unprofitable: they have just opened four new medium haul routes from their NCE base and some from TLS too. They have also not closed a single one of the routes that they have opened since they opened their NCE and TLS bases a few weeks before AF did (although they announced it several months after AF!) Somehow, one of the two airlines seems to keep thriving where the other seems to keep failing...