Originally Posted by
Xtreme87
If...if this works, and JB continues to grow. Widebodies are next and then the whole trans atlantic mafia comes falling down. That’s a big if.
Highly doubtful. Lots of airlines have tried the Atlantic with widebodies. There are multiple issues. The first being that the Atlantic makes big profits in the summer and loses most of that in the winter. The second is that to have long term success and viability international long haul has to be fed at both ends by strong networks.
To paraphrase Freddy Laker, “Any idiot can make money flying the Atlantic in the summer, the problem is how not to lose it all in the winter.”