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Old May 26, 2015 | 3:21 pm
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Originally Posted by paul4040
Prices ex-DUB will rocket to London levels due to the lack of competition. BA don't care about losing people like you or I on cheapo business class fares. Think of all the money they can make out of Dublin now. The Irish-American market is huge and it is ready to be milked.
Yes indeed and EK/EY are not competitors on the DUB-North America route.

I have had my suspicions that the oneworld JV have been keeping the price artificially low to discourage EI from growing too much ... let us hope I am not vindicated.

Separately it seems EI will be joining Avios.
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