Originally Posted by
IntrepidAfrican2
Not for the airline. The short hops aid aircraft utilisation, in-between longer haul flights.
Also, a RUH resident can travel all the way to GVA on the GC. RUH was not chosen randomly. A lot of cash-rich residents there with not-so-great / mixed bag commercial options.
Same logic applied to KWI in the beginning, but haven’t been in yonks and not sure if the GC is still deployed there.
Sure it’s solely utilisation as opposed to experience; given that they only launched chauffeur driver recently, have no EK lounge, it goes inconsistently and a hundred other reasons. Poor planning for the experience IMO for GC generally.