Originally Posted by
sophialite
At the end of the day, doesn't matter how boring DC is. LH Group decided on these routes because they thought it would be lucrative. Clearly, despite the already existing routes to IAD, they felt like there was still demand for an additional direct flight.
SEA would have been great, but would it have made financial sense? Not sure SEA can support premium J or F traffic for multiple direct flights to DACH.
I definitely could see something for ICN, which currently has no F cabin across the LH Group. Correct me if I'm wrong: there's the 744 from FRA, and the A350 from MUC.
My small sample of LH flights to ICN in recent years when they still had F, always had an near empty F cabin with 2 pax on each occasion. If there was more demand for F on this route, LH would no doubt have switched back to A346.
IAD only has F on one of the FRA flights and that’s been full on most occasions when I’ve take this flight.
It would be great if LX would offer a late departure ex-IAD, only the MUC flight (A359) departs in the evening along with a load of UA flights.
UA has a decent hard product with the new Polaris seat but its soft product is still behind most of what LH-group offer.