Originally Posted by
rvr350
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 Turkish air offers a great economy comfort class that can rivals our outdated world biz class in the 767.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!
As a member of the base that is DIRECTLY affected by the pulldown in IST, I think I can opine as to how much I think that sucks. That being said, our route guys have done a pretty damn good job of bringing our revenue stream up to the lead in the industry in their choices of destinations. No category in our system has been more drastically affected by the decimation of the European economy than the NY 7ER.
So.. what makes UAL think they are gonna make boatloads of money going from EWR, when DAL, who had been serving that market for years, perhaps did not? UAL pulled back from their foray into Africa when they found that those markets could not support two carriers. Maybe this will be the same. Turkish flies from JFK to IST. Maybe there is room for one.. and not two. I guess my point is that there is nothing to indicate that the route people at UAL are better rocket surgeons than our guys. We will find out.