I think your analysis is right, I also think that Brussels is a niche market with a very interesting and well-loved hub for pax.oldblueeyes wrote: ↑06 Apr 2024, 08:39 You can compare apples to apples - CDG and AMS to FRA+MUC+ZRH.
The markets BRU serves are not core for LH. So BRU would get some additional connectivity to fill capacity, not more, not less.
You're overestimating your brand and it's role, hence the frustration vs your dreams.
See the facts - although you won't like them :
- the Premium brands are Swiss and LH - with First offerings and New/ although delayed Premium cabin Produkt
- second would come ITA - simply by long haul fleet size and importance of the market
- leisure travel / Discover+ Edelweiss in the large markets is more important than small brands, due to synergies and competition
- OS and SN complete the picture as complementary offering - not less, not more ; they would get their fair growth share, but this follows the rest
In a nutshell : the A350 for Edelweiss were more important for the group, and scaling up Discover as well.
SN has a clear path - A 319-》 A320 to compete in a LCC Environment and some additional written off A330 for minor interest markets. That's what you get.
- no 80 seaters, as the whole group got rid of them
- no models which can't play a role for more group brands
- no dwarf diversification
- no local approach that could harm group efficiency
Again here, the role split is clear :
- intra European Hub is MUC
- feeding of the major 3 hubs / with FCO 4 comes after
I also think that the African market is a little nugget of gold that was built with more than a hundred years of experience, which is very special in the airline industry.