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Simply. You defined most of the European and neighbouring markets as a single airline market and left it to consolidate. And here we are ... smaller, weaker airlines are consolidated - like many other industries. Why is it perfectly acceptable to have 4-5 mobile phone players across Europe and but e...

Today's announcement of job and fleet cuts are really an amateur move, it was not necessary to announce this at this time, when so many things are still fluid, unless it's an orchestrated plot to get both the money and job cuts and make this look acceptable politically. Flanker for manager! Have mo...

On the other hand.... Swiss wasn't forced to integrate into LCC Eurowings... Years were lost because of this stupid plan. Swiss was always ultra premium.. all long haul aircraft have a first class on board.SN was... Virgin Express! ZRH is nearly LCC free, BRU has Ryanair at inside and CRL junk few ...

Try all to be realistic. The whole industry is adjusting downwards between 20 and up to 40% (see what's happening at SAS). With the bad profitability in good years in the neck, for SN the game was line a 20%+X question, rather 30% plusX as Reboot was expected to generate 10% cuts. Luckily the wet le...

SN's A330's are not that old anymore since the A330 rollover, I assume? And I can't imagine replacing the A330's one on one since they'll need a couple to fly to Africa (cargo)... To The States and Canada can be. Air Transat also flew already the A321LR to BRU. And maybe certain African countries w...

Controversial? Maybe. But it's better to think we are small than compare ourselves to companies like AF/KLM/Lufthansa/British Airways. We are not. Far from. Your observation is right. But it would bring people outside of their comfort zone. There are several success stories outside of the big guys ...

Patriotic approaches are not bad in their own but they are not realistic to market realities and an open skies Europe. It's nice to have big dreams on long haul, but the reality is that this work typically in alliance internal JV's. And the alliances are built around big founding members from each c...

True. and that's why i do believe that the basically healthy ones will consolidate first and do the rights things to do. IAG: - they made already a big move with Air Europe -> next step would be to integrate them - they still have to sort out the Vueling unions issue - Level long haul is still an ex...

Vueling and Iberia already asked for help from the Spanish state. So let's not think that IAG is a white knight. What if Lufthana is changing the story and convince the German state that they can provide a great equity story for them? So getting more money (at the end Germany gets currently debt for...

..rather political try to show a "PlanB" to the public. Etihad? Great investors AirBerlin, Alitalia, Darwim (Etihad Regional) etc. a true success story, indeed. What would they benefit from, especially as now Abu Dhabi signed a cooperation agreement with Wizz? And if long haul would be suc...

Greener airlines is bullshit bingo for hardcore veggie votes, nothing more. Greens tend to be very pragmatic if they are in the governments - for example they sit in the supervisory board of the FRA airport ( as members of the regional government) and of course they voted for terminal 3 and new oppo...

When the night stop is done with an A319, as there are 2 pilot and 3 ccm on board, you need to book 10 rooms, 5 for the crew arriving late and 5 for the crew departing early, so 12 when it's operated on A320. So it's cheaper to operate an A319 over an A320. As OS is taking them out of their fleet, ...

Brussels Airlines, Brussels Airlines Europe, Brussels Airlines Express, so 3 AOC's what a lovely idea. And if I understood well, you want to keep a good connectivity between Europe destination and Long haul operation. But you also want to remove the expensive night stop? Great But can you tell me h...

What I will write here is an own thought. Not what we know from our industry or during negotiations. So this time is my own vision on the situation. As we can think there is a possibility in a fleet reduction for SN. But as the Lufthansa group always was preaching, it would be possible in shifting ...

Consolidated loss around 130 million, debt 500 million, you can call it negative perception or irrelevant, as much as you want but it’s black-and-white or better red-and-white. One of my relatives is a senior underwriter at an important trade insurance company, since 2015 they refuse to insure agai...

All those very long stories...boring to read...bottom line: before corona SN was not able to make profit, even not with an occupancy on nearly all flight of +90%. This is a very important fact for the decisions to come soon... No big stories with hundreds of figures...just ordinary farmers-wisdom g...

... Just that there is a need of responsibility from both sides. All group companies are doing lay offs - Swiss is preparing for something like 1.500 to 2.000 people, according to Swiss media - and this is coming by an already agreed aid scheme, high profitability in the past etc. It is simple indu...

LH wants free money, as simple as that, but you can’t have your cake and eat it too. That's again a claim without substance. You can see it in the structures of all deals LH is making: - they want a subsidy part in the way any company forced to let people stay home during the past months can legall...

LGW saturated? Are you aware that BA is reducing massively the Gatwick activity and closing the long haul from there? Can you finally realize that all players from the industry are in the same boat? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/30/british-airways-to-cut-gatwick-operation-and-lay-off...

@Nordikcam Not at all dead. Just that there is a need of responsibility from both sides. All group companies are doing lay offs - Swiss is preparing for something like 1.500 to 2.000 people, according to Swiss media - and this is coming by an already agreed aid scheme, high profitability in the past...