instead of retiring these aircraft, at least the 777s, they should look at expanding Scoot.
Getting people flying again, will be achieved faster by low fares. Qantas is doing this in Australia by getting Jetstar to fly more aircraft on busy routes.
Plenty of routes that Scoot could fly such as Australia to USA & Canada. It would have to be via a 3rd country, but plenty of Pacific nations would happily let Scoot use their traffic rights.
1 stop Australia to USA works well for air new zealand, fiji airways etc.
Singapore already fly to most major Australian ports & LAX, SFO etc. in USA.
1000s of B777 pilots of flight attendants not working at present. Many would work for less.
If they are retiring aircraft, their value must have been written down to virtually nothing. Could they sell them ? Yes, but for very little.
What the major difference between a legacy airlines & their low cost equivalent ?
Staff numbers & pay ?
Presume they have far staff on far less pay than their parent.
Maybe they use parent companies back office, to stop any duplication.
Worldwide recession, seems to indicate that low cost carriers will boom at the expense of legacy carriers.
Last edited by OZFLYER86; Nov 8, 2020 at 5:17 pm