Originally Posted by
Gooner
You mean like WOW or NAI or Thomas Cooke ran the numbers? This has been tried over and over. If an Iceland stop over to access true LCC frequency and seat capacity then ULCC transatlantic flight is not really feasible. Legacies have been seeing near red on the routes for a while, you know what makes it work. Cargo. There’s just somethings a wide body does better.
I agree a widebody does it better. JB is going to war with the army they have though, and the new 321 is better than any previous NB at least. They don't have to "win" to win. They only have to wage a war of yield reducing/capacity dumping attrition to cause legacies to reduce their footprint to accomidate them. Unlike other attempts, they have a massive domestic feed network already established. They will take significant amounts of lay flat, economy and even some cargo, straight off the top of existing legacy revenue, while reducing revenue on what's left. Legacies will soon have to choose between losing some money near term to fight it off or lose far more over the long term to accomidate it.