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Old Jul 14, 2023 | 9:18 pm
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Originally Posted by ernestnywang
Your reasoning makes a lot of sense to me, but let's say even if CX just intends to codeshare, still why only once a week? This part doesn't make sense to me.
Quite right, and that is one point I couldn't understand. Durban is not that big a market except for UK and India, DUR international market is about 380,000 passengers with LHR, LGW, BOM and HRE being the top markets - none of these apply to CX, The biggest CX-appropriate market is MNL with 5,700 annual pax - probably mariners. If HKG and SA have tight controls on codeshare rights then DUR may only be allocated one given its relatively low importance in terms of revenue production.
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