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Old Jul 4, 2007 | 11:03 am
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Originally Posted by JeremyAO
From today's www.airfinancejournal.com:

"British Airways has been awarded the first blanket authority by the US Department of Transportation under the new Open Skies agreement that will begin in March 2008 to serve any US city from any European city. British Airways are seriously considering starting services to US cities from a number of major airports in Europe."

(Based on TLV being in BA's EuroZone & Israel being expected to join the EU in 2018)

If BA wants to make any absolute killing they should start a JFK-TLV service. In all seriousness for both CO & LY nearly every flight is overbooked (that’s 2 flights daily on CO 777's and 4 flights daily on LY 744's/777's).

They could put two 744's or 777's daily on that route and clean up the horrendous competition who can't even manage to offer their pax flat beds (NO... 180 degree INCLINE seats don't count!!!).

Just a thought, but easy money for BA....(apart from the lack of planes that renders this idea as impossible).
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