All Nippon Airways has announced a business restructuring. In addition to retiring 22 Boeing 777s, the airline will also be forming a new low cost carrier.
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Trying to be all things to all people often leads to being nothing for no one. The list is long, going back to Continental Lite and USAir’s MetroJet in the nineties. SAS had Snowflake (before it meant something else). JetStar seems to be reasonably successful, but low cost long haul is a different beast. Apart from economies of scale on the operational side, there tends to be problems with unions over work contracts. Savings on inflight offerings is there, but that’s not where the big bucks are.
They closed/merged Vanilla Air into Peach, and now opening a new one?
Not surprised, worked in Japan before, and my ex-company had new directions every other week...
@Greg - indeed, I do. Let’s see how this all plays out. From about avgeek perspective there’s one good thing: more liveries at the airport 😉
It’s a good idea. American Airlines should have a spin-off low cost carrier with no first class. They can compete with spirit and southwest. Turn the first class seats into big seats for a $150 upgrade. Test it out with a couple a319s and a321s.
Just like Scoot to SQ, Peach is a stain to ANA’s brand.
Hope it fail miserably.
In addition to retiring 22 Boeing 777s
That whooshing sound you heard was a bunch more longhaul F seats leaving the market very quickly.
Let's see, Etihad, Singapore, Air France, British Airways and Lufthansa A380s, BA 744s too, BA is revising their 777s down from 14F to 8F, CX doesn't fly F to the USA any more, neither does SQ... boy, those aspirational trip reports are going to seem like relics of a bygone golden age soon, huh?