Originally Posted by
KoruPilot
Sorry but I'm going to have to call this one. Is EK using the dart board approach to route expansion? Is there any real market between Dubai and SFO? Or, are they just looking for places to put all those planes they ordered. . .
Perhaps some EK insight?
Koru:
EK pay a lot of money for a proprietary system that tracks all passenger movements for almost all airlines worldwide. They find the city pairs that need service and will be profitable for them. Los Angeles and Southern California have a very large Iranian population. San Francisco and the Bay area have a very large Indian population. These flights will have very high load factors right from the start, just like Houston and Sao Paulo do.
TP