Originally Posted by
gloopy
Actually I'd like to see us be the only US airline to actually compete in MCO-EU. Its a mssive market, with more heavy jumbos there at any given time than we have flying all over the world total (well, almost) and I think we can compete. Of course, you have to get the plane there and back, and ATL-MCO is a market that's perhaps better served by the occasional heavy rather than spamming it with hourly frequency in a leisure market that doesn't reward that much frequency in the slightest. So the occasional 777 to MCO actually wouldn't be a bad idea.
Sure. You get minimal yield in that market precisely because Virgin Atlantic has 3-4 747s/day, BA has a couple now and then.. Lufthansa has some... I don't know this for a fact, but I will wager that the one 747 going from JFK to TLV makes as much profit yield as all of VA's 747s going to MCO. I'd much rather DAL have a few more TLVs than MCOs... and I live there. Now translate that to NRT. THe other point is, that I do not know whether any of that is true. You could be right that EU to MCO could be a golden goose... but I rather doubt it.