Originally Posted by
slowplay
If you guys want to be successful, tell your e-mail writers to ensure they stay fact based. Example: B737-900 ETOPS to Europe? Please. Also, if changing to block hours is a "land grab", what happens when Alitalia's EASK are pulled out of the JV next year versus what will happen under a block hour regimen? What happens as we add A330-300 to replace 7ER flying under the same premise?
Make sure they're prepared with facts as they grab the torches and pitchforks. JMO.
Fair questions.
What are the current seat kilometers that Alitalia is flying? I higly doubt however that the change from 7ERs to 330s is going to amount to that many seats in the aggregate. It would take a bunch of 330s going across the ocean to add up to enough to result in dropping any, and I frankly don't see that as being much of a real threat. Besides, they are out of whack as it is, and the grievance by the way, did nothing to rectify that. My first question is the one that matters and the only one that makes any real difference.