Originally Posted by
jeremyBA
This is all bought about by the mind boggling complexities that legacy carriers seem to put in at all levels of their business.
I suspect that if short-haul Ryanair/easyJet-style simplicity were brought to long-haul, we would not like the long-term effects. There are all sorts of reasons why the KISS approach taken by low-fare airlines to short-haul operations (to which and its peer group has had to respond when selling similar trips) has not translated well to long-haul. Ryanair and easyJet have never shown any real signs of moving into this area, and other low-fare long-haul pioneers have not always been doing that well.