WW "airlines to go bust"
May 5, 2020, 3:12 am
#1201
Join Date: Mar 2014
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With the Norwegian lessors becoming owners, it raises an interesting potential conflict of interest. I don't know who the lessors are, but if they approach BA with a lease offer, BA could well say, 'But as an owner of Norwegian, aren't you effectively a competitor of ours?'
I worked in an industry (now thankfully retired), where the lines between clients and suppliers were becoming a bit blurred and some clients were telling suppliers that they were, in effect, becoming competitors and why should they continue to use them.
I worked in an industry (now thankfully retired), where the lines between clients and suppliers were becoming a bit blurred and some clients were telling suppliers that they were, in effect, becoming competitors and why should they continue to use them.
May 5, 2020, 6:39 am
#1203
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May 5, 2020, 6:45 am
#1204
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Also complete closure of VS operation at LGW for VS. That would only leave MAN & LHR routes.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...vival-11983452
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...vival-11983452
May 5, 2020, 6:53 am
#1205
Join Date: Feb 2011
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Also complete closure of VS operation at LGW for VS. That would only leave MAN & LHR routes.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...vival-11983452
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...vival-11983452
May 5, 2020, 7:03 am
#1206
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Also complete closure of VS operation at LGW for VS. That would only leave MAN & LHR routes.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...vival-11983452
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...vival-11983452
May 5, 2020, 7:05 am
#1207
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May 5, 2020, 7:28 am
#1209
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I suspect not, I reckon they will all go along with half of the 777 fleet, if things don't pick up within 2 to 3 years, the rest of the 777s will be gone as well. Worst case I estimate that BA’s fleet will be about one third or its current size.
May 5, 2020, 7:48 am
#1210
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The huge reduction in capacity is going to push prices up significantly in the near term I suspect.
May 5, 2020, 7:57 am
#1211
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May 5, 2020, 8:02 am
#1212
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May 5, 2020, 8:07 am
#1213
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: UK/France
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Certainly it looks expensive to be split across two terminals with the demise of Monarch, Thomas Cook plus VS and BA decamping en masse to LHR. The fall out across a previously vibrant industry is just massive and my sympathies to anyone else caught up in this.
May 5, 2020, 8:10 am
#1214
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Location: BOS
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they will not need the price conscious leisure flyers to fill seats, the non price conscious ones will be enough
May 5, 2020, 8:16 am
#1215
Join Date: Jul 2014
Programs: BAEC, VS Flying Club
Posts: 797
Quite the conundrum. South is the obvious terminal to keep open - as they have during lockdown - but their largest and (for now) only remaining large customer has invested heavily in North and effectively calls the shots.
