Originally Posted by
intuition
So with CA connecting ARN and CPH to all the SK destinations GOT, OSL, MMX, HEL, UME and so on, and offers connections to just about any city in China, then in my mind it must be a threat to that strategy.
Not directly, as AY offers a one-stop as opposed to CA's two-stop, so if time is an issue, AY still wins. While they don’t fly to just about any city in China (yet), they offer quite a lot of alternatives.
Originally Posted by
haapalainen
Thank you very much for the comparison, interesting read. CA definitely has some good fares to Asia, and actually I just bought a few weeks ago HEL-FRA-PVG-SYD-PEK-ARN-HEL in J for 2200€. This competition is something AY should for sure be watching carefully!
This is definitely a bargain! And might attract leisure pax who want to fly J and don’t care about flight time. But again, for J pax on company money, it probably doesn’t make sense to have them fly two stops and 11343 mi instead of one stop and 9578 mi (via BKK).