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Old Dec 4, 2017, 2:42 am
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Originally Posted by San Gottardo
I lost track of what point we are trying to prove or disprove regarding Turkish airlines.
hfly was trying to argue that there is no competition from LCCs on routes like IST-Western Europe (so routes between around 1100 like FRA-IST or around 1500 like LON-IST) because they are too long to make sense for an LCC and there is no significant saving to be made for an LCC model with routes that long. I then came back with several counter-examples to which hfly replied with "Yes but what have the Romans done for us?"*-type arguments. I am not sure that we need to pursue this further as we are getting further and further from the topic of the thread.

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