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Old Apr 23, 2024 | 10:23 am
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Originally Posted by AlwaysFlyStar
I mean, I imagine that, as Aegean says, the existing routes that would see this would be some of the middle eastern routes. I imagine they have strong confidence that they can maintain and increase yields to those destinations against stronger competitors while also having the ability to test the waters with a few new routes further afield.
But the point is that I would imagine this small sub-fleet is so small because they have confidence that they could increase their revenues on certain existing middle eastern routes with this fleet, while giving them the opportunity to see if new markets might work for them as well.
Unlike many others, I would be more surprised to see these on London routes as a regular thing with these planes. Because they can fill the London flights easily enough. But I could see them eventually adding some sort of signature service or something geared to people connecting to the more high yield destinations.
I agree that the ME routes are more likely than some random 1/2x service to somewhere random which doesn't have O/D demand anyway.

​​​​​​London is ridiculously unlikely — there's no competition on that route anyway, and people will still pay happily through the roof both in summer and winter (more so summer). On the other hand, A3 can't compete on most of their ME routes compared to what the Middle Eastern carriers might have to offer.

Again, don't think this is going to translate into 1/2x weekly routes to somewhere random, though
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