Originally Posted by
hfly
Blue, CW2006 was a tweak of NCW, not a real product change. Pretty much everyone accepts that, hell they had not finished rolling out version one across the entire fleet until 2004.
hydro.........actually as the US3 and EU were intensifying their attacks on the ME3, QR thought it was time to buy off one of the biggest possible critics.......... It was around that time that WW started regularly praising Al Baker repeatedly in public.............
Nothing that Qatar does is really an investment, unless you mean an investment in their "credibility" as a nation/force as many of their "investments" do not and will not ever earn them any real return in a straight cash sense.
And I think there lie in the issue- whilst most airlines need to turn a profit, ME3 are there to build credibility with little regards to finances. So they can operate low yield routes, spend money on products and attract a cost conscious leisure based customer profile who don't mind detouring via their rolling hubs, which is a very different business model to say, BA.