Originally Posted by sadiqhassan
Do you have a source for this? All official sources that I have read, explicitly state that EK received no government favours. This is different from other benefits that it receives (such as low oil prices - but this is because oil is cheap in Dubai, not because EK is getting the easy way out.) I do not have connection with the top management at EK (sadly
) but I do know some people that work for them, and I have been reassured many times that nothing happens that it off the books. If this did happen, other countries would probably close their doors to EK, and they would have nowhere to fly to.
Airlines are quite different, in that they use price discrimintation. In your situation that would mean charging 80/c per game to the people that were willing to pay a max of 80/c per game, and chargin 245/c a game to people that were willing to pay. I find EK to be more expensive that most of its competitors especially from European cities.
Cheers
If they are so expensive, as you claim, but also have excellent load factors as you also claim, what is it that is attracting customers??? I have never flown EK but have flown SG and CX and would definatley fly them if I was in a premium cabin rather than QF business. But surely there must be something that is attracting the custom. CX and SG are excellent airlines and in all fairness I would not fly EK over those two if EK was more expensive.
Edit: I just did a search and EK was the second cheapest option SYD-LHR for July travel in Business....sounds more like they are adopting my pricing strategy
