Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Deferring the A350’s makes sense, Asia is on the toilet right now. Far East airlines keep adding capacity without the needed demand. Here is a post from another forum. The fares are crazy low.
Is anyone making money flying US to Asia right now? When one can get a a flight BOS to SIN leaving TOMORROW (11/15) for $1,037, and leaving Monday (11/19) for $793, I can't imagine a 787, A350, Soyuz Rocket, a hang glider, or any other machine capable of flight making the difference on profitability on TPAC routes right now.
And just to show that's not an outlier, I'm grabbing some random US cities and Asian cities leaving 11/19 and back 11/23
BDL/PVG - 1 stop - $602 on AC
PBI/BKK - 2 stops - $980 on UA/HK
MSY/MNL - 2 stops $1,208 on CX
MCI/KUL - 2 stops $1,124 DL/KE
LAX/DPS - 2 stops $456 MF
SFO/PEK - non stop - $514 UA
PDX/HAN - 2 stops $799 AA
Exactly, because as we all know, those aircraft will IMMEDIATELY be available for DAL to pick us as soon as the Asia traffic picks up. <--- extreme sarcasm.
I have not seen anywhere the delivery schedule of those 330 NEOs either. So they are paper airplanes as well.
And you know as well as I that the premium product pays the bill on those flights.
DTW-PVG, $5800 RT Delta One. 32 seats available in the 350
Tell the whole story.