Originally Posted by
BA850
The problem is that the continental competition is even worse. British Airways, Finnair and Iberia all offer solid J products, but all three have hubs on the peripheries of Europe, so I suppose there’s little incentive for Lufthansa to change a product which, even in its current miserable form, beats LOT, Air France and KLM.
I strongly disagree that LH J food beats LO, but besides that you're 100% on point. LH's business model is all about having the best network and essentially making sure that pax have no other option than to fly with them. That allows them to sell abysmal product at ridiculous prices. Why would they change it, unless they have to?
At least EC finally caught up and stopped further expansion of the monopoly with the ITA deal, but I'm afraid it's too late to fix the problem.