CSA Withdrawal of service
Oct 17, 2009, 11:01 am
#1
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CSA Withdrawal of service
Travelled MAN/PRG this week on 737/400-150 seats
10 seats empty in Y and full in J
Yet next week this route will be discontinued-how many do they want on their planes?
10 seats empty in Y and full in J
Yet next week this route will be discontinued-how many do they want on their planes?
Oct 17, 2009, 5:32 pm
#2
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One flight is not representative of a route's performance. While the flight you were on was full, perhaps the return service was not and perhaps the yield even on full flights was not enough to save the MAN-PRG flight from being discontinued...
Oct 18, 2009, 7:39 am
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I've also wondered at times about this. They used to have 2xdaily to DUB, even having a press release that this was one of their most popular routes. Then they cut back to 1x daily with lousy times and now I think it is totally gone. Granted, the crisis hit Ireland hard and a full plane does not guarantee yield but still..
Oct 18, 2009, 8:37 am
#4
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But its yield that is king... Filling a cabin is the easy part. A full flight does not mean a flight/route is profitable. In the DUB-PRG case they faced competition from both EI and FR, not a good recipe for maing money on a route.
Oct 18, 2009, 11:02 am
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Plus a route like this will most likely have a lot of vacation travelers and Czech (+ maybe Slovakian as well) workers working in Ireland (anybody who's visited IE in the last 4 years or so will now what I mean!) - both groups that use very cheap tickets. Plus especially the last group has diminished after the Irish economy went down the drain.
wonder what CSA will cut next
