Originally Posted by kered
It’s obvious that EI want only point to point traffic, but what does the future hold for connecting passengers ??? Or those who don’t want to fly with EI across the Atlantic, in their over priced, vastly inferior, so called premier cabin. Instead preferring to pay way less for a superior product such as BA’s WTP or CW !!
LH, AF, etc. Maybe not the choice you want, but certainly a choice.
Originally Posted by SmilingBoy
BA will gladly add capacity on LHR-DUB and take over all the disgruntled EI/FR passengers that can't interline. It's a free market, so nobody is stopping BA from flying to DUB.
The market may be free. But the slots at LHR aren't. LHR and DUB point-to-point is low-yield. The connecting market isn;t great either other than in CW and F. And, the real killer - better to use the slot sending a 747 to India or wherever.
Originally Posted by House
you may well see the ability to through-check baggage being made available even on certain FR flights.
If MOL does that it would, IMHO, be a huge mistake. FR is probably the most ruthless airline in the world when it comes to controlling costs and having a 'simple' operation. Taking bags off a plane and distributing them to a dozen different planes is a hell of a difference from their current approach of dumplign them all on a single belt.
FR are absloutly brilliant at what they are trying to do (at least looking at it from an FR perspective, I accept that pax would frequently not apply the phrase 'absloutly brilliant' to FR) and tinkering with things and complicating things will do nothing for them whatsoever.
Overall - interesting times ahead. We've already had the Irish government and the EI unions coming out against it. If it does go through, I predict things will get explosive. Let's not forget the last carrier FR took over (Buzz) - the negotiations were getting a bit tough so MOL shut them down for a month. I'm not sure whether they are still around, but if they are, they are indistinguishable from FR.