Archive for the ‘EC’ Category
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Yesterday British Airways announced ,"lucrative premium traffic fell further in February, but, due to capacity cuts, proportionately it filled more seats." Nice try BA. The press release carried more details, "BA's premium traffic dropped 20.2% on the year, with non-premium traffic off 5.5%. Premium traffic in January fell 13.7% year-on-year. ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
What the OTR said....
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
The OTR has an update via Airliners on the status of Openskies. In sum, they are slowing growth and centralizing business operations in France. As stated before on this blog, I think Openskies has the right product and product mix. However, the state of the economy is devastating and things must ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Today marks the first flight for OpenSkies between AMS and JFK. And, given the sale that has been out for a week, there are likely plenty of seats to purchase. Only $499 each way plus taxes and fees for roundtrip travel. Stating the obvious, the economy's collapse can not be ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Two updates on premium travel:1. My post yesterday regarding the disappearance of all premium aircraft is no longer valid, as OpenSkies announced today they would be removing the 30 economy seats on its aircraft and replacing them with 12 Prem+ seats. This had been long rumored and the timing ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
The deal is done. On Friday, British Airways announced that it has completed the purchase of L'Avion and will integrate it into OpenSkies by early 2009. Over the past three years we saw 4 airlines attempt to fly across the Atlantic with only business class seating. It ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The arm-chair upside to this OpenSkies-L'Avion merger is that we will all quickly learn a great deal more about BA's strategy for its new baby business class airline. Based on all available information, it always seemed like OpenSkies would opt for Route Map vs Frequency. They'd launch ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The big news of the morning is British Airways' purchase of L'Avion. BA shelled out a strikingly low 33 million Euro for the airline (68 million - 35 million in cash reserves) and will absorb L'Avion into OpenSkies. I discussed the impending possibility of this purchase in my podcast ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Earlier today I recorded a podcast with IAGblog's Addison Schonland. The discussion focuses primarily on OpenSkies and its implications for premium airlines. Check it out. Let me know if you have any thoughts.Clarification: In the podcast we discussed OpenSkies offering the only flatbed between New York and Paris. In fact ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
In less than 24 hours OpenSkies' inagural flight will be jetting across the Atlantic. When OpenSkies was announced Eos, Maxjet, Silverjet and L'Avion were all flying their own all-business class configurations. Now, Openskies' codeshare partner, L'Avion, is the only one still flying. Interestingly enough, OpenSkies is offering a product that ...
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