Air France starts low-cost carrier (hoax)

V-Bird · Post by **V-Bird** » 01 Mar 2004, 13:54

[(hoax) added to the titme by admin]

Air France will start a low cost carrier niCEjet, they will be based @ nice

Source: airliners.net

Sabena_690 · Post by **Sabena_690** » 01 Mar 2004, 14:02

This must be a joke...

Out of NCE?

Frederic

Post by **luchtzak** » 01 Mar 2004, 14:05

Hmmm...

Anyone with some extra information?

Post by **sn26567** » 01 Mar 2004, 14:09

Hey, Air Littoral, the former main carrier at Nice, is bankrupt. There is room for a replacement.

Anyway, I think the news is premature. Google does not know it...

EB-Air · Post by **EB-Air** » 01 Mar 2004, 15:29

that was a joke by a A.net-member...
He just wanted to start some discussion... I searched A.net, and found this:

Username: Richardw
From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 979 posts, RR: 0
Reply: 2
Posted Mon Mar 1 2004 13:16:33 UTC+1 and read 252 times:

It is humour. I made it up. They would be based at NCE.

What other full service airline could start a no frills airline with the last 3 letters of its' name being the base airport?

Link: http://www.airliners.net/discussions/ge ... n/1431362/

Regards,
Ben

V-Bird · Post by **V-Bird** » 01 Mar 2004, 15:32

well....what a nice guy :shoot: :pang: :dammit:

Post by **luchtzak** » 01 Mar 2004, 16:12

1 April is still one month away ....

PH-WSN · Post by **PH-WSN** » 01 Mar 2004, 20:18

Well KLM has got Basiq Air (they own Transavia for the biggest part of their voting stock) and had buzz.. Why doesn't Air France start up a LCC?, basiq Air is really getting off the ground here. From RTM they have a lot of new and exciting destitinations, and they even serve Verona and Venice from AMS now.. So where's the LCC of Air France??, they don't seem to have that many LCCs in France at the moment

V-Bird · Post by **V-Bird** » 01 Mar 2004, 20:23

hahahaha :

well Transavia is 100% owned by KLM, KLM belongs to Air France, sow Transavia is the LCC from Air France,

hahahahahaha,

Lol

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » 01 Mar 2004, 23:54

Then Basiq Air is an exeption...
Allmost all LCC started by majors were BIG mistakes: BUZZ & GO for example?
In the USA it's the same: Delta's SONG has stopped expantion plans (its an airline that offers more frills than Delta at lower cost with the same cost structure, how can it ever make money?), United's TED is a new one, we 'll see what they do...
Let full-service be full-service and LCC be LCC...

A318 · Post by **A318** » 02 Mar 2004, 12:17

Yes that's right, but Basiqair provides the best positive financial numbers inside the KLM group so they did it correct.

Greetz,

Erwin