Originally Posted by
nanyang
You - of course - have valid points.
All I'm saying is that KQ is hardly making great money...
My argument is that the original complaint does not make much sense. The quoted price is not that high. For a full-service airline, selling USD350 return tickets mixed with connecting traffic on a 665km sector in an environment that is not exactly low cost - well, I don't think that can be a huge money maker. This comes with the caveat that I have no idea re KQ's CASK for that sector.
Whether KQ is making money is irrelevant. Any losses more likely to be down to mismanagent or corruption. It doesn't mean that paying customers should foot the bill.
As for it being a high cost environment. Really? How? Employees get some of the lowest wages on earth, and the cheap/nasty Chinese built airports like the one in Nairobi are hardly expensive luxury stuff.
Flights in Africa have always been expensive due to lack of competition and inefficient local operators. I presume that is why they have always tried to keep competition from the likes of FastJet at arms length.