Originally Posted by
seat_4D
1) I understand it fully
2) you made constant "hub" references as a reason why there were no Intl flights out of PER in another thread, and in this one once the new flights were announced changed your tune entirely.
If you think that I have changed my tune, then plainly you have not understood what I have been consistently saying.
Flights like PER-SIN and PER-HKG are, for QF, flights from a place that is
not a hub to another place that is
not a hub.
That is why they will struggle against airlines for which the
same route is a flight to/from a hub. So when SQ operates PER-SIN, that is a flight from a place that is not a hub to a place that
is a hub. Ditto, if CX operates PER-HKG, that is a flight from a place that is not a hub to a place that
is a hub.
Where have I ever said anything different?
Things could be different for QF at PER if it chose to make PER a hub. But PER does not naturally lend itself to being a hub, for physical, geographical and economic reasons.
And while we're at it, are there any other network airlines anywhere in the world that operate lots of international flights between a point that is
not a hub to another point that is
not a hub?