Originally Posted by
San Gottardo
I suspect the same. BJS has enough O&D traffic for them to think less about connections on CA and instead more about the timings of the flight, and connections in Zurich. Also, I'd suppose that connections can still happen through PVG, even though that might be back-tracking for some, and the new ICN flight may also help as ICN is well connected to many parts of PRC.
Is it really? My understanding was that CA stayed at PEK and runs its hub there, with PKX being merely a spoke or a focus city to use terms of US network carriers. MU on the other hand moves to PKX where it won't be cmpeting for capacity with CA. Could be wrong though.
It's just something that I heard and that was given as a reason for the move of Swiss to PKX.
And as far as I know the ICN flight won't happen that soon :/
Originally Posted by
oliver2002
The CAAC has split the CN carriers evenly between PEK and PKX: the oneworld or skyteam carriers that were previously in the very crappy terminals on the other side all move to PKX. What was in T3 pretty much stays in PEK. Which is confusing why they are still stingy on slots in PEK. CA will definitely keep their operations in PEK T3.
It's just something I have heard as a reason as to why Swiss is moving their flights. And there it was mentioned that Air China just staying in PEK wasn't accurate anymore adn that they might also move. Before I heard that I too was under the impression *A would stay at PEK.
Air China currently has 10 so routes from PKX and honestly, if Air China does not shift most of their traffic I really don't understand why Swiss would move airports. Surely conenction traffic wasn't that low? What other reason would there be? Just better cost and timing? At the expense of pretty much all connection traffic?