EVA wake up, CATHAY plundering INDIA-US traffic for ultracheap HKG link
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EVA wake up, CATHAY plundering INDIA-US traffic for ultracheap HKG link
Cathay Pacific started plundering India-US traffic for HKG route with ultracheap fares . EVA AIR start India Operations earliest or partner with Star Alliance partners TG, AI for US-TPE-BKK/SIN-INDIA sector. Its time for EVA to live true to its vision: Taipei the pacific link.
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I know I wouldn't double connect to get to India from the US but if AI & BR did team up that would be good for travelers.
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The Gulf carriers own the India-US market now.
Top 5 airlines in the Indian market, by passengers carried
Originally Posted by livemint.com
Top 5 airlines in the Indian market, by passengers carried
Last edited by irishguy28; Jul 5, 2016 at 6:31 am
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So excluding the busiest flights (India-Nepal, basically a hop), makes sense that the Gulf carriers are carrying a decent load. Especially as almost every worker I ever met in Qatar was Nepali.
FWIW, TK C is the best way to fly to Nepal from the US.
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May or may not be true, but your stats do not back this up.
The first states that the Indian domestics carry more international traffic than the ME3, but no breakdown by region.
The second states how the US traffic on each ME3 breaks down by region.
US-India via TPE (or HKG) looks a bit long to me. This is probably the one US market that the ME3 can really try to dominate as their hubs are well located (so is IST).
Now, if Aerofloat had funds to buy some nice metal, that would be the ideal route.
The first states that the Indian domestics carry more international traffic than the ME3, but no breakdown by region.
The second states how the US traffic on each ME3 breaks down by region.
US-India via TPE (or HKG) looks a bit long to me. This is probably the one US market that the ME3 can really try to dominate as their hubs are well located (so is IST).
Now, if Aerofloat had funds to buy some nice metal, that would be the ideal route.
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Me neither. I don't think there is an Eva forum but there is an Airlines of Asia forum and I sent a note to a mod when I responded to the thread. Holiday weekends do pile on a volunteer mods time though.
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Cathay Pacific started plundering India-US traffic for HKG route with ultracheap fares . EVA AIR start India Operations earliest or partner with Star Alliance partners TG, AI for US-TPE-BKK/SIN-INDIA sector. Its time for EVA to live true to its vision: Taipei the pacific link.
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HKG-India fares AREN'T CHEAP at all. I had to fly to Mumbai on CX and the price from HKG was HKD 10k! TPE-BOM was slightly lower...around TWD 29k.