Airlines have no plans to replace BA's axed New York flights
28.04.08
The 3 US airlines flying between Manchester Airport and New York - Continental, American and Delta - have no plans to increase capacity when BA axes its daily service in October, Crain’s reports.
BA announced 10 days ago that a lack of premium passengers and poor yields (average fares) made the route unprofitable. However, aviation analyst Richard Leigh from RDC Aviation blamed a price war for the failure of the service (to which he might have added BA's increasingly London centric focus - it was the last non-London BA long haul route)..
Mr Leigh said: ‘In the last couple of years, Continental have added an extra daily flight to New York from Manchester and Delta arrived with a daily JFK service using a large B767-400 aircraft. All of the airlines had to lower prices to stimulate demand and steal market share and the route became pretty competitive.’
Manchester Airport says it is in negotiations with unnamed airlines to fill BA's slots on the transatlantic route but United, bmi and Virgin all told Crain's that they had no plans to launch flights on a route BA could not make work.
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