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The only thing I don't get is the "must be careful not to chase a customer that no longer exists" referring to low bookings in business class on short-haul. This, in my opinion is very subjective and short-sighted. And I think that it's Lufthansa's view,copy-pasted. LH have seen a huge ca...

Adding a plane to the long haul fleet is the easy part really, it's filling its seats at good yields that is the hard thing, IMHO. Remember that adding a single plane logically means you'll have to add 12 new stops in AFI, provided you keep the plane in BRU one day a week for MX! So, here's the cha...

cnc wrote:talking about a crap article...

Well, what did you expect, it's HLN afterall...

I see 3 Star alliance members in the list and one who will become a new member in the future... As far as I see, only 2 of the top 10 are Star Alliance members (Egyptair and Thai). China Airlines isn't a member, Air China is though.Chris Indeed, only 2 present Star members (Thai & Egyptair) and...

Similarly, OS will also re-introduce hot meals on medium haul flights of more than 2 hours and improve catering in Y class as it is deemed an 'inexpensive marketing tool' to set itself apart from low costs which offer nothing at all. Are you listening SN? Get rid of b.light, please.... and become a...

Well spotted... it is indeed basically the same Recaro-seat already in use at LX since 2005 and now also at OS which will soon be found onboard LH too... any guesses what BD will present as its new interior early next year? :lol: Yes, LH, OS & SN (A319) will get the same new seat, which is inde...

India is a VERY important market for the LH group. Just look at the number of flights LH (plus LX and OS) do operate to India on their own metal. Do not think any European airline is even close to them here. And from what I have heard it is a very attractive and succesful market regarding profit fo...

The only question is, will Star continiou with AI and if yes are they going to aggree with 9W to join? Dumping AI would be a foolish thing to do as it will harm Star (and certainly LH) in India. AI still has some political backing. Personally I think that the politicians in India will be very impor...

This is also the reason why BD has this dedicated C class configuration ONLY on some of its A321 deployed on very long flights ONLY, so as to still have a reasonable overall seat count. Seat count on these A321s is just 149, whereas the regular A319s at BD have up to 144 seats! Go figure what the s...

BMI is putting 2-2 business class on (some of?) their A320's. This is the new mid-haul business class product of the Lufthansa subsidiary: http://twitpic.com/371m27/full bmi has these C seats already for years on their mid-haul A320's & A321's; they have now 'only' replaced the cloth covers wit...

Hi 134flyer ! Excellent description of the situation. Well, I was just trying to summarize the newsreports etc, and trying to interpret what SN’s future would and could become… Personally, I don't see the need/use of a SFO flight. If by flying to SFO b.air wants to serve West Coast pax traveling to...

Offcourse SN1203 is right: why loose money starting up asian or south american destinations. BUT: doing nothing and hope every year to just turn break-even is a risk too, sometimes you make money, sometimes not. So investments are necessary, even it's a risk. In that point of view I don't think SN'...

Gustin said one of the reasons for SN to consider to fly to the US themselves is that currently SN is too dependent on their codeshare partners: it is often difficult for SN to get seats on those flights as the codeshare partners obviously will first fill the seats themselves. So as a consequence of...

All interesting news indeed, but if I read correctly:
Both the C & Y cabin will get a new IFE, the Y cabin will get new seats, but it hasn't decided yet if the C cabin will get new seats? I thought that was a given?!

After the article in 'De Standaard' last week about 9W's future at BRU, now an interesting article in today's 'De Tijd' newspaper about the same subject. Again Sudheer Raghavan (9W's CCO) is being interviewed, and it is very obvious that 9W sees *A as option number 1: Star Alliance is the best optio...

Star Alliance really wants 9W to join their alliance... Unfortunately they have AI to think about... AI is owned by the Indian government and Star needs AI or at least their owners (the government) to keep their precious slots and co-operation. If Star could make AI disappear they whould have made ...

Hopefully the new C seats will be fully horizontally flat, like e.g. the LX C seats. It’s also almost certain that LH’s new C seats (to be introduced when the 747-8i enters service) will be fully horizontally flat. This in contrast to the new AF C seats, which were presented earlier this week: http:...

What about a GTF engined Tu134? Would love to see one in SN colors!

NCB wrote:So Mr. Boeing puts words in other people mouths? You lost credibility, who is ever going to believe you again?

Well, after reading all the comments from most here, I do know who has lost all credibility here and it's certainly not MR_Boeing!

Aren't these pictures of the leased B737-500?