The situation is quite different.Sandbelter wrote: 30 Jan 2025, 14:44
Hopefully some someone in Lufthansa Group can see the natural advantages BRU offers for intra Europe connections going forward….advantages AMS seems to be already exploiting.
AMS has a position following historical pattern:
- a heritage large focus on feeding AMS - even with a UK AOC ( some of us older travelers remember KLM UK feeding small airports to AMS with Fokker 50 turboprops)
- AMS is within AF-KLM the European transit hub ( let's not elaborate further on how pax friendly CDG is built for that)
- demand was historically boosted by North Sea oil and gas business from the 70s, with both UK and Dutch ventures acting
To the contrary:
- SN is focusing in BRU on upgauging all fleet towards A320 size - KLM#s Uk traffic is boosted by regional aircraft and altough SN started with AVRO's it never built up anything in that sense
- LH group has already a intra European hub - this is MUC, thus no need to cannibalize
Overall the momentum of hub and spoke is rather declining, as for the price sensitive pax groups P2P offerings became popular, albeit frequencies not matching business travel demand, but filling the planes.
So, nice idea, but there is likely more money to be earned for SN offering P2P to the UK, if this is more profitable than other routes which can be served.