Originally Posted by
YVR Cockroach
LAX-LHR might work if codeshares by KL, DL and NW are thrown in. Lots of distribution. I think AA and NZ could be the big losers.
I am not so sure that the codeshares would make such a big difference. People are not going to backtrack to ATL/DTW/IAH (nor are they going to add several 1000 miles to connect to NW's Asian services), so we are still talking about O&D traffic only. Do NW, DL and CO have a sufficient presence in SoCal to make a significant impact, bearing in mind that even their FFers might prefer to fly on their own metal, albeit with a change, for a variety of reasons, such as upgs for instance?
Originally Posted by
PUCCI GALORE
My own view is that AF will not cut it in the UK market unless they offer something spectacular in the way of fares.
I think that Pucci is spot on. It seems to me that the best rationale for such services is to attempt to weaken your competitor by reducing their profits on their home turf rather than generate substantial revenue
per se (a kind of
réponse du berger à la bergère for BA's CDG-JFK) pretty much like we witnessed on intra-European in the early 1980s and probably with the same outcome in the medium term.