Originally Posted by
flyallnite
I was very surprised to hear that Istanbul has been dropped. SD said the yields are too low despite high load factors. We recently up gauged the service and have served the market for 20 years. The Turkish economy is a bright spot in Europe. It would have been more accurate to say that Turkish Air chased us out with their recent expansion. Just like Air Berlin did.
Exactly. Turkish air offers a great economy comfort class that can rivals our outdated world biz class in the 767. Once they close this route, those DL customers may never return.
Funny how we cut out IST and at the same time United is adding Ewr- IST? I guess we are so good at chasing yield these days.. ahh, bean counters, gotta love'em!