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Old Apr 23, 2024 | 1:25 am
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Originally Posted by MeltingAlf
No sensible airline - especially someone as small as Aegean - is going to introduce a new fleet sub-type of four aircraft just to fly 1x/2x weekly to experiment whilst putting the rest on existing routes that is perfectly serviceable with the existing A320/A321s.

Furthermore Aegean's also not stupid enough to reduce pax counts on routes like LHR when the pre-existing product suffices.

It's one thing for Aegean to test new routes with their pre-existing fleet which would incur little to zero capex.​​​​ It's another thing to introduce a small fleet sub-type to do that.
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Well, there only two theoretical possibilities why they bought the new aircraft, either to use them on new longer routes, or to use on existing routes. Unless they plan to lease them or something, which does not make much sense.
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