LH A380 Flying To JFK
Dec 23, 2010, 12:11 pm
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F awards on the A380 are currently only available to SEN and HON members of M&M.
Jan 2, 2011, 5:46 am
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Will this be a big thing??
Do you think they will do a big thing out of this? I mean, they have three?! other A380 destinations already but this is the first one to the States for LH.. I'm booked on LH400 on the 18/2 and I'll keep my fingers that there might be some give-aways or something.. 
/Chris
/Chris
Feb 12, 2011, 12:02 am
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I am very surprised how LH kept the number of seats in first class on the A380+744(new seating) to 8 seats only 
I guess they are having hard times filling these seats with their high fares in first class 
I guess they are having hard times filling these seats with their high fares in first class
Feb 12, 2011, 7:41 am
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it would be interesting to know if there is ANY airline out there who can consistently fill 8 (or more) F seats with paying pax, i doubt there is many, low fares or not...
Feb 12, 2011, 8:20 am
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BA, which has larger number of F seats on their 777s and 744s, has high loads on certain routes, however, I am not sure what is the % of revenue passengers and non revenue passengers.
Feb 12, 2011, 8:24 am
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EK and EY have ~50% lower labour costs then LH, BA, AF... And 20% lower fuel cost.
Feb 12, 2011, 9:05 am
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Feb 13, 2011, 7:07 pm
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Feb 14, 2011, 8:49 am
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This article (NYT no less) quotes someone sounding pretty knowledgeable as saying that EK has 30% less costs than European legacy carriers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/bu...pagewanted=all
Nathan Zielke, a transportation specialist at the consulting company Arthur D. Little, estimates that Emirates’ overall costs, including those for labor, are 30 percent lower than those of its rivals.
Feb 14, 2011, 9:56 am
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Feb 15, 2011, 10:27 am
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Do you think they will do a big thing out of this? I mean, they have three?! other A380 destinations already but this is the first one to the States for LH.. I'm booked on LH400 on the 18/2 and I'll keep my fingers that there might be some give-aways or something..
/Chris
/Chris
Feb 16, 2011, 10:36 am
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Apr 20, 2011, 3:13 pm
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Searching for the flights for Christmas I noticed that LH400/401 appear to be flown on A330-300 starting in November this year. Are they moving the aircraft to another route or just different flight numbers?