Reasoning for why A3 should do ATH-EWR as hub to hub Alliance routing.
Originally Posted by
nk15
I agree, I think they can make ATH-JFK work, if they can get the route. No need for feeder agreements, although I see google flights giving a lot of A3 fare combos with Jetblue. I would certainly fly A3 over Delta in the winter, which I dislike anyway, and definitely in the summer over other direct carriers. The issue is how many planes they need and how many routes.
Think about how many carriers flight direct to ATH seasonally, and steal A3's lunch. AA, DL, UA, and AC have about 3 daily flights each, and even Emirates and Norse have direct flights and 5th freedom rights (yes, the Norwegians are flying ATH-JFK direct). 10-15 daily direct flights from ATH to North America, and the only Greek airline does not fly any of them. Ridiculous, and frankly, nationally embarrassing. Even the Serbs fly direct to JFK from their capital.
spot on and speaking of Aegean Airlines they are better off doing Athens to Newark EWR NYC that way United Airlines can just code share on them. In return A3 domestic Greece get UA code. One more thing that Miles and bonus can do combine United Airlines domestic with the A3 ATH-EWR/EWR-ATH flight and A3 domestic Greece. If you want to see this in action look at Newark Airport where you have domestic United Airlines flights having code shares from the star Alliance partners that fly to EWR.