While I’ve questioned the carrier’s prospects of success since before launch, it’s not surprising that recent events are causing this.
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If there were demand to these destinations - MLE, SEZ, ZNZ, MRU - then you'd have the big european airlines do regular flights. And, with few exceptions of BA/AF operating to MLE+MRU, just sending their 'rejects' in the form of holiday airlines like Edelweis, Discover, Neos, Condor etc. There just isn't a market I guess, outside of ME3 serving these holiday destinations, sadly.
fuel over $4/gallon just doesn't support a lot of routes esp. for airlines that don't have deep pockets to weather a financial storm.
This war is nowhere close to being over and it will take even longer for fuel supplies to stabilize in order for prices to come down.
There will be airline failures around the world even as alot of capacity will come out and the cuts will accelerate after summer.
I don't have much familiarity with how EU passenger rights laws are handling the fuel price crisis. To me there is a big difference between not wanting to pay the market price for fuel versus fuel simply not being available.
Wonder if JSX would pick these planes up at a bargain price for use on transcon US?
"While operating flights during summer would’ve likely caused big losses, grounding planes isn’t exactly profitable either, especially when you still have to pay employees.
I was wondering about that: Will the employees be paid during the summer? Or, will they be on unpaid leaves? If the latter, how many will still be around after summer for a service resumption?
That would be fun to see! I wonder how they’d make themselves competitive on schedule with only two aircraft. They’re also subject to the same pressure from fuel right now.
Sure, JSX is partly about the hassle-free airport experience but offering only two to three flights a day compared to AA/DL/UA/B6 with up to 40 daily flights across all carriers (LAX-JFK) might be a hard sell.
In short, for flights departing from the EEA (and UK), passengers can request being rerouted in business class on other airlines. Fuel prices have no impact on EU 261 and equivalent UK obligations.
They can’t have more than 30 seats because of their certificate. They’d need a new entity as a Part 121 airline to do that.
There is significant demand and particularly in premium cabins, just not for a one-stop service. The Maldives at Christmas and Easter are completely rammed with wealthy Europeans these days. First on the BA flights can sell out literally months in advance for peak times of year. The problem is the kind of wealthy Londoners / Parisians who take all their family to the Maldives for 1-2 weeks have no interest in a one-stop option, so BeOnd will be stuck fighting for the low margin premium cabin traffic where it ends up in competition with every other Gulf carrier.
Absolutely no connections and flight network, it would be hard to fill in this amount of premium passengers at a very high price. It is also easy subject to location issues. Even considering premium… eh.. I would say your competitors are EY and EK, SQ and SV…
There is a difference between analysis and filling unknowns with your preferred narrative. You seem very comfortable confusing the two.
Maybe at this time, and in the actual context, it will be better to focus in charter business. They have a fantastic product for it
For an actual, viable, all-business-class (lie-flat) ‘premium’ carrier, please consider… La Compagnie.