Originally Posted by
nordic
SU is also getting a second HEL-SVO flight some time next year
The timetable will be
HEL-SVO 11.10 - 13.50
SVO-HEL 09.20 - 10.20
My speculation is that AY will codeshare also on this SU flight.
I really hope that it will happen. Otherwise the New York - Helsinki -Moscow route will be ruined by a transit time of over 8 hours instead of the current 35 minutes. Finnair's morning flight will leave earlier than before with no connectivity from JFK. Ofcourse it is possible that the flight times for the JFK flights will also be changed, but the AY timetables don't show such a change.
This seems a bit strange. Starting next summer the Russian passengers will actually get a worse connection than today.
Code:
Today:
SVO-HEL-JFK: 12:55-13:40 // 14:20-15:55
JFK-HEL-SVO: 17:45-08:50 // 09:25-12:05
Summer:
SVO-HEL-JFK: 11:45-12:30 // 14:20-15:55
JFK-HEL-SVO: 17:45-08:50 // 11:10-13:50
Added up, the travel time will increase with close to 3 hours, one segment will be operated by SU. Is this really a profitable move made by AY? On the press relase they claim that 25% of the passengers are connecting to USA.
With AA opening nonstop DMO-ORD, AY might lose some passengers that want to avoid SU and continue to earn AA/AY-miles.
By the way: have AY had a lot of misconnects on the SVO-flight to and from JFK?
Also: May this mean that AY will look into to more routes into US as the connections to SVO are better?