Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Good article in this weeks AvWeek why what you post is not likely to happen. Mostly centers on the extremely high cost per seat of running 120 to 140 seat aircraft transatlantic. Fuel burn is not impressive on a per seat basis and the gate, landing fees, slot, staffing and other costs eat you alive with low seat counts.
If they can't make it work then it will resolve itself, but I bet they did a lot of number crunching especially based on the assumption that legacies will retreat as fast as they grow to preserve per flight profitability. I think the marketing theory is they can make a 1 penny profit a lot easier than legacies will fly unprofitable flights, and they have a huge amount of existing yield they can gut before they do it in the red. Its clearly a game of chicken and they're expecting legacies to blink.