IAG "circling Monarch assets"
 

According to Sky News at the moment.

747 circling the ZB head office ?


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"BA Holidays to get own airline, freeing other BA assets for normal route traffic." ??

But how well would ZB's airframes fit with the rest of BA's fleet? Oh, mainly Airbus ... the 737 Max order could be an issue, though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_Airlines

Given a significant amount of Monarch's assets are currently in the air, I have visions of BA a/c barrel rolling around them...who knows where the G&Ts will end up!

Oh so the vultures are going to wipe Monarch out of the way now? What's left? Just the cherry on the pie, Virgin Atlantic. You see, this quest to be a monopoly has what has annoyed me about British Airways more than anything else, more than their endless service cuts, more than their plummeting customer service.

Oh, yes, this nasty British Airways is single-handedly responsible for the plight that Monarch finds itself in. I'm sure.

All I can see BA being interested in is offering Monarch staff a job. There's nothing else worth having is there?

I don't follow. There is more competition than ever before. Ryanair, easyJet, Norwegian? VS very much remains part of DL's (and now KLM/AF) empire.

What was the point in Monarch anyway? It didn't seem to know whether it was competing with Thomas Cook, easyJet or BA.

You mean those arses at Waterside might want to save some jobs and take over some routes/aircraft? Horrid people.

Interesting explanations given by Simon Calder earlier on.

It went along the lines of:

* Monarch were heavily committed to Sharm el Sheikh which blew up
* They were also heavily committed to Turkey which slowed big time after the uprising last year
* As a result they unloaded capacity onto Spain and Portugal routes
* This resulted in fierce competition there which they are struggling to withstand
* Prices are the lowest in real terms for years - I think the example quoted was LBA to Spain £40 return in middle of August

As Monarch has quadrupled most flight prices today to apparently deter bookings it doesn't look great.

Would there be a fit with IAG? Arguably. Depends which routes/assets we are talking about. EasyJet is also believed to have shown interest too, I would have thought that was a better match.

I think your final sentence provides the answer to the first question.

It would be great if they operated some of the Monarch scheduled flights from MAN to Europe and perhaps we could ke Monarch 34" leg room for the first eight rows in CE��

I have met and worked with a few people who Monarch hired into senior commercial positions and my impressions were not good - they were not bad at their jobs, but not very good either. What they were good at was talking nonsense. Based on these hiring decisions, I will not be surprised if they do go bust.

Too,late, Delta has already picked that cherry

Here is a link to the Sky News article: http://news.sky.com/story/ba-parent-...oubts-11063003