Originally Posted by
NWIFlyer
I think you have to balance this against the shifting nature of A3's route offering - they are opening up many new routes without really expanding the fleet (the OA planes largely just serving the destinations they always did), so by implication something has to go to balance the available fleet inventory.
That would be a very sound financial reason not to sell tickets so far in advance - pulling a route to introduce a more profitable one is good business, but not if you've got to pay to re-route already booked passengers on other carriers when you cancel their flight, aside from the public relations disaster of doing so ...
If you look at the organisational management literature, you will see that problems frequently arise when firms try to expand too quickly without setting in place the administrative, engineering and IT systems necessary to operate at a larger scale. Additional planes will surely be needed to operate A3īs rapidly expanding LCA hub. I do not accept the argument that Aegeanīs current opening up of new routes justifies the fact that they can`t get it together to offer a flight program allowing booking up to 355 days in advance. TK is expanding even more rapidly and they have no such problem.