Post by kirmingtonuser on Sept 29, 2010 16:38:02 GMT
Eastern Airways has obviously been very successful in identifying high-yielding markets such as the oil industry. This has led to some very low load factors occasionally (there are passsengers commenting on airlinequality.com that they have feared for the future of the airline when counting only 4 PAX on a flight).
The aquisition of Air Southwest will mean that they will now be running an operation which has hitherto had a very different (and, we are told, not terribly profitable) approach, with some very competitive leisure fares.
It will be interesting to see what effect the aquisiton has on the pricing policies of the two airlines.
In due course, Eastern will need to replace their J41 fleet. The trend recently has been towards larger aircraft with lower costs per seat-mile. Will this lead to the introduction of curtains to create 2 classes ? Will champagne only be served in the first few rows of seats ? Are there enough potential leisure passengers on the Eastern Airways routes to justify discounting the seats at the rear of the aircraft ?
The FlyBE model seems to gather-in leisure passengers on UK domestic routes, but, unlike Eastern, their flights don't arrive quite as timely ! (So perhaps Eastern could still charge a leisure premium)
The aquisition of Air Southwest will mean that they will now be running an operation which has hitherto had a very different (and, we are told, not terribly profitable) approach, with some very competitive leisure fares.
It will be interesting to see what effect the aquisiton has on the pricing policies of the two airlines.
In due course, Eastern will need to replace their J41 fleet. The trend recently has been towards larger aircraft with lower costs per seat-mile. Will this lead to the introduction of curtains to create 2 classes ? Will champagne only be served in the first few rows of seats ? Are there enough potential leisure passengers on the Eastern Airways routes to justify discounting the seats at the rear of the aircraft ?
The FlyBE model seems to gather-in leisure passengers on UK domestic routes, but, unlike Eastern, their flights don't arrive quite as timely ! (So perhaps Eastern could still charge a leisure premium)
