Originally Posted by
supermasterphil
This is excellent news. I hope they will have a long price fight with CO serving CGN and I know CO has problems to fill up this flight anyway. One of them will loose
I have my doubts that LH will be able to sell all seats as well with basically three flights a day, FRA, MUC and DUS, (MUC and DUS A343, FRA A333) plus the business jet out of FRAl. Maybe they realized that EWR is way more convenient than JFK...
Actually CO is doing very good out of CGN from what I have heared, especially in their front-cabin. And they cater a different crowd on their EWR-flight, which is people connecting to varoius US-destinations (EWR-DUS has no such potential, and ORD is not that well-suited for connections to east-coast and Florida). So I think CO sees things still rather relaxed...DL however with their ATL flight might have a different feeling as they currently have problems filling their 763 with enough yield.
But you make a very good point about LH's capacity to EWR. There are:
LH 484 FRAEWR 0815 1115 73W
LH 408 DUSEWR 1000 1220 343
LH 402 FRAEWR 1245 1510 744
LH 412 MUCEWR 1515 1820 343
LH 482 FRAEWR 1715 1959 333
That's a lot of seats waiting to be filled now...
Greetings - Dirk