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July 17 2006
Uh, don’t piss off a reporter from the Times of London. A reporter from the paper found her MAXjet flight delayed by 2 1/2 hours and then proceded to write a vicious article attacking the airline and telling people not to fly the airline. Now, I don’t really care whether you fly MAXjet or not, but let’s be real: flights are delayed all the time. She was especially angry that she felt lied to by ground staff and then the airline’s CEO. A 2 1/2 hour delay is not uncommon (though I’ve also heard that MAXjet has suffered its share of mechanical issues), but a 1000 word attack on the airline is probably not warranted. And her editors should’ve known better. That said, it’s a good read.
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May 04 2006
EOS Airlines, which flies all first class seats to London from New York, has lowered fares to $1,475 each way. The airline had originally hoped to get $3200 each way, has lowered prices in a bid to win traffic from the myriad other airlines flying the same route. EOS’ seats and service are at least as nice as anyone’s first class, so this is a bargain. Even so, you can fly the all-business-class MAXjet for about $1000 round trip (sometimes less). If price is no object, though, EOS is a steal.
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May 02 2006
Gotta love those guys at MAXjet. If you can leave on May 6 and return May 7, 8 or 10th, you can get a $499 round trip fare between Washington DC and London. Including taxes. In their all-business-class seats. Insane. Just enter the code MADMAX at checkout.
(thanks to the Flyertalk guys for this one)
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April 18 2006
A couple of months ago I wrote a little blurb suggesting that MAXjet was not selling a particularly large number of seats (I estimated they were selling 40something percent of available seats). I thought I’d give a bit of an update: the company put out a release saying that March their load factor (their percentage of seats sold) was about 50% (so I probably wasn’t that far off in February. Yay me.) and that their April and May load factors will be in the 70% range. They’ve done a fair amount of discounting, and these numbers don’t include their newly introduced flights to Washington, but it’s a good sign for them, nonetheless.
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April 11 2006
A new airline called Silverjet announced that it will launch all-business class service between Newark and Luton Airport in London by the end of the year. The carrier, which will compete with similar services by EOS and MAXjet, will charge about $1800 round trip for one of its 100 lie-flat seats on a 767. They also said that they expect to be able to charge as little as $200 round trip for some seats. You do the math. Anyway, they need to raise about $45 million before they go out of business, er, launch.
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March 16 2006
MAXjet is once again offering a $750 round trip fare from New York to London good through the rest of the year (that INCLUDES taxes, which are almost never included in advertised fares). Remember—this is in business class. The price is only good on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but it’s valid through the summer, when coach fares are usually higher than that. If you’re even considering a flight to London, these cheap fares are ridiculous. Enter code JFK06 at checkout.
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February 07 2006
You may be wondering how MAXjet and EOS are doing. You may first be wondering what they are (in which case you probably don’t care how they’re doing). The new carriers, flying all business class seating across the Atlantic, have both been offering fare sales regularly. So, in an OTR first, I’ve done a bit of an investigation into how their seats are selling, and here’s what I’ve learned:
Looking at the number of seats sold for the next six flights on each airline, the picture isn’t particularly pretty, and it’s quite ugly for EOS. MAXjet has an average load factor (percent of seats sold) of 35%, with a high load factor of 49% and a low of 18%. EOS has an average of 22%, with a high of 42% and a low of 10%.
Sure, lots of business travelers fly on little notice, so the load factors will improve as the dates get closer, but these dates are pretty close to begin with. Nobody makes money at 35% or 22%. Or even at their high levels of 49% and 42%. Admittedly, winter is slow for travel to London. But it’s mostly business travel on these airlines, and it won’t necessarily pick up in summer.
Both of these guys have some cash to burn, so they’re not going anywhere anytime soon. But these early numbers suggest it may be a rough road.
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