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-   -   Predictions for the end of Kingfisher Airlines! (https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/india-based-airlines/924037-predictions-end-kingfisher-airlines.html)

UA Fan Mar 27, 2012 10:18 pm
Originally Posted by Yaatri (Post 18283591)
SFO-BLR nonstop to name one.
You just love bringing it up, don't ya? :)

onlysuites Mar 28, 2012 12:13 am
Originally Posted by lallyr
I think they will go on for a long while. So my prediction is 2050. That is when super fast magnetic railways will making flying thing of the past.
This is quite weird. I don't remember saying this. :confused:

d3vski Mar 28, 2012 1:53 am
Originally Posted by lallyr (Post 18287122)
This is quite weird. I don't remember saying this. :confused:
you sure? you also praised him for running a cracking airline!

Yaatri Mar 28, 2012 7:19 am
Originally Posted by AlohaDaveKennedy (Post 18285962)
Glad I'm not the only who knows about

http://inhabitat.com/russia-green-li...bering-strait/

Could be a game changer much like FLAG.*

But we would still need flights to Australia, Antarctica and all the islands strewn about?



*Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe - ever wonder what juiced the outsourcing of all those tech jobs to our friends overseas?
What does it have to do with IT or with airlines, other than cargo? Very little. It's designed primarily for freight. London To New York by train, via Bering Strait might work for adventure travel, but it's not going to replace air travel.

Yaatri Mar 28, 2012 7:23 am
Originally Posted by UA Fan (Post 18286670)
You just love bringing it up, don't ya? :)
Yes. KISS rule should not be ignored. Sometimes a single simple fact gives an important clue. Getting into complex analysis creates nothing more more than fog.

The key question was will KIngfisher survive. When it dies, if it does, is a minor issue of detail.

onlysuites Mar 29, 2012 1:56 am
Originally Posted by d3vski (Post 18287394)
you sure? you also praised him for running a cracking airline!
I still stick with that. I think he did a great job at the start. But in today's day his business model was just not going to succeed. But a good airline it was at the start.

zenith2010 Mar 30, 2012 12:58 am
'Special Fares on Kingfisher' mailer
 
Received an email this morning, announcing deep discounts on some of the metro routes. It is good to see Anshu Sarin using a much more humbled tone (in line with Mirpuri et al) for a change, and the discounts do seem significant, but their offer of double king miles on all flights till April 30 is just laughable. Their only motivation behind this "generosity" has to be that they KNOW their ff miles are going to be useless very soon.

"Your support combined with our resolve and efforts will ensure that Kingfisher Airlines returns to its past glory"

The ever-optimistic KF!

Keyser Mar 30, 2012 1:29 am
Originally Posted by zenith2010 (Post 18300886)
Received an email this morning, announcing deep discounts on some of the metro routes. It is good to see Anshu Sarin using a much more humbled tone (in line with Mirpuri et al) for a change, and the discounts do seem significant, but their offer of double king miles on all flights till April 30 is just laughable. Their only motivation behind this "generosity" has to be that they KNOW their ff miles are going to be useless very soon.

"Your support combined with our resolve and efforts will ensure that Kingfisher Airlines returns to its past glory"

The ever-optimistic KF!
their del-bom return fares in kingfisher first are unbelievably cheap at the moment....my client booked me on a kingfisher return flight next week because the kingfisher return fare in business is cheaper than a one way business fare on jet....as a back up i told them to also book me on the jet flight since i don't want to risk a flight cancellation....

GUWonder Mar 30, 2012 2:32 am
Originally Posted by lallyr (Post 18294197)
I still stick with that. I think he did a great job at the start. But in today's day his business model was just not going to succeed. But a good airline it was at the start.
It was indeed a very good airline at the start, but whether or not it was sustainable as that, not sure.

Originally Posted by Yaatri (Post 18288356)
The key question was will KIngfisher survive. When it dies, if it does, is a minor issue of detail.
No such thing as an immortal company. :D

Yaatri Mar 31, 2012 10:11 am
Originally Posted by GUWonder (Post 18301124)
It was indeed a very good airline at the start, but whether or not it was sustainable as that, not sure.
A Ponzi scheme is also good for those at the front end. IT came up in a market in which even a business run by a monkey would have prospered. I know many self proclaimed financial geniuses who made a ton of money until the dotcom bubble went bust.

Originally Posted by GUWonder (Post 18301124)
No such thing as an immortal company. :D
It's the issue of scale my dear. The mighty PanAm is gone, did it survive? Did it flourish? What about TWA? The scale I had in mind was that of weeks to a year or so.

YuropFlyer Apr 2, 2012 6:38 am
Die in 4 days please :D

uxb Apr 10, 2012 1:12 pm
17 April is nearing. Perhaps it will die once I book a flight on them. :)

Keyser Apr 10, 2012 2:05 pm
Originally Posted by uxb (Post 18368014)
17 April is nearing. Perhaps it will die once I book a flight on them. :)
perhaps it won't die at all....

rurouni212 Apr 10, 2012 2:42 pm
guess i lose

onlysuites Apr 11, 2012 2:50 am
Have they paid up the salaries as per VM's promise on the 10th?


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