This is actually sort of brilliant. La Compagnie is the all business class transatlantic airline that started flying in mid-2014. They operate flights between Newark and Paris using Boeing 757 aircraft. The airline operates up to two daily flights, and it seems like they've been able to build up market share to the point that…
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June 17-21 is the Cannes Lion festival, which is like the film festival but for advertising. So tons of demand from the US and especially New York.
That 23,000 dollar fare is at the start of the Cannes Lion Festival, which I'm sure is a huge driver of the route for Delta, along with the film festival. Anecdotally, I flew that route last year in September and the flight in both directions was under half full, but I'm sure thats because it was the shoulder season. I really did love the ease of NCE, and how close it is to the city center, not to mention the lounge was pretty decent for a small airport.
Can see a lot of people taking advantage of the flight, I'd have to think its a very premium yielding one, despite it being mostly leisure outside of May-June for the festivals. But I'd also think that Delta has most, if not all of the corporate contracts locked up between its direct flight, and connections with AF through CDG.
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My friends go to Monaco for the Grand Prix every year at the end of May and airline prices on the Delta flight to NCE from NYC tend to be $$$ as well.
FWIW, the NCE-JFK flight often comes up as a fairly cheap transatlantic connection from some European cities. I've had people fly PRG-NCE-JFK on OK/DL, as it was by far the cheapest option, even compared to travel on Delta via CDG, AMS or MXP.
I flew on a connecting flight to Nice this year outside of the summer season and it was ~$8500 so clearly that route can bear high prices.
This is a very smart move. NCE is such a premium heavy destination (at lest for Americans and Russians who really think that Nice and South France so-so-so-so unbearably fancy).
I remember once in July 2009 I took a Sunday evening flight from NCE to Moscow with Aeroflot. There were 20 business class pax and 8 economy class pax booked (it was operated by A319 with 20/96 layout).
Quite similar experience I had in September 2016 when taking DL direct NCE-JFK. The flight was operated by 764. DeltaOne was fully booked 3 weeks in advance (I checked as I was thinking of applying a GUC), every single seat in Comfort+ was also taken. The rest of the plain was basically empty (I would estimate 50 pax in total). Initially a had a Comfort+ seat but then moved back and had 3 seats for myself and no-one 3 rows in front of me and 5 rows behind me. Best Y class TATL flight ever.
@Mark
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Part of the London route failure was that it flew out of Luton - London's worst low cost airport. I actually missed a La Compagnie flight because of a traffic jam on the M1 that made the normal two hour trip into a four hour trip (was on crutches at the time, and couldn't handle the train and bus transfers to get there with luggage)
I treated the 757 as an all PE flight as there wasn't flat beds, but at the price point, was a great option as the soft product was as good as BA / AA J class.
Hope this route becomes profitable for them
Very exciting news in my opinion as Nice is my local airport and it'd be nice to have more long haul options.
Right now the ones available can all be counted on one hand : JFK with Delta, Dubai with Emirates, Doha with Qatar and Montreal with Air Canada rouge/Air Transat.
Let's hope the rumours are true
UPDATE : The flights are now bookable on the LaCompagnie Website. One way ticket on a random date in October going for 1,569 Euros
WOW round trips are currently being sold for 1,000 Euros with a week's stay :O
Take that Delta and your monopolistic pricing