<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by GUWonder:
Perhaps the demise of loyalty programs will lead to a hastening demise of the major flag carriers and the absolute conquest of marketshare by the low cost carriers of the world.</font>
The day we see that Irish prat launch a 777 with 11 across and 28" pitch from some field a long way outside of London to another field an equally long way outside of NYC, I'll believe that.... but it wont happen, the LCC model simply doesn't work on longhaul.