Originally Posted by
Trip7
Isn't MNL a visiting friends and family(VFR) destination? I think that low yielding traffic keeps getting funneled thru ICN.
I think every fast.growing economic center are good targets. Vietnam with all the manufacturing moving there is probably a good bet along with Singapore and Hong Kong. More cities in China also a good possibility:
Largest Chinese Cities by population
- Shanghai: 24.87 million
- Beijing: 21.54 million
- Guangzhou: 18.68 million
- Shenzhen: 17.56 million
- Chongqing: 15.87 million
- Tianjin: 13.86 million
- Wuhan: 13.52 million
- Chengdu: 16.93 million
- Dongguan: 8.46 million
- Nanjing: 8.50 million
- Shenyang: 8.32 million
- Hangzhou: 10.71 million
- Harbin: 10.63 million (included in top 10 most populated cities)
- Suzhou: 10.72 million (included in top 10 most populated cities)
- Zhengzhou: 10.35 million
I have more experience than most with Shenzhen and in my opinion Shenzhen should be the first city we expand to. It is under served from the US. Only one flight to SEA on Xiamen Airlines existed pre pandemic.
Shenzhen’s close proximity to Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Macau has lead to the other cities having service instead of Shenzhen. However Shenzhen is a major manufacturing center as well as the home of the second largest financial center in China behind only Shanghai.
Any route to the US from SZX would have zero competition right now and in my opinion be an immediate success.