Sir TC says 10 more african destinations

[halas]

10 more destinations for EK in Africa in the next decade.

What's left (worth) to go to?

halas

[The Guru]

Mmm....Interesting.....

This speech by TC was pretty high level and strategic in nature, but reading between the lines my personal prediction is that we will:

• extend the operational life of the remaining mini-bus fleet well in to 2018,
• extend the A345 beyond Mar 2015,
• make the A332 revert to being a nursery training fleet for the A380,
• make transition to the A380 be something that 'approaches' a seniority based system,
• extend the life of some of the older B772 aircraft, and
• start increasing the frequency to existing African destinations in the short term to continue utilization.

The G.

PS. My personal opinions only, and glad to be proven WRONG!

[migair54]

A lot is left...

Kinshasa and lubumbashi in Congo.
Douala and Yaounde in Cameroon.
Kigali in Rwanda.
Antananarive in Madagascar.
Zanzibar in Tanzania.
Maputo in Mozambique.
Return to Moroni in comores.
Togo.
Equatorial Guinea.
Mogadishu (in a very long future).

Some right now are small markets but slowly they'll grow up.

[Capetonian]

Yes but ..... destinations like that will only be profitable for EK if they can derive most of the traffic from strong currency areas. African originating traffic is mostly lower revenue.

Oh... I forgot, profit doesn't seem to matter much to EK, it's more about domination, and I'm sure there are plenty of hookers waiting to fly in from those places to ply their trade in Dubai, that Islamic paragon of virtue where sex outside marriage and the consumption of alcohol are illegal but openly encouraged as and when it suits them.

[vfenext]

Cape, might come as a surprise but the highest yield on the EK network comes from Africa.

[Capetonian]

It doesn't come as a surprise. Lagos is high yield and so are other destinations on the continent already served by EK, but those listed by Migair54 are unlikely to produce high yields for the large aircraft types operated by EK.

I have access to MIDT figures so I know what I'm talking about.

[BigGeordie]

Sounds like a bit more variety for the A330 guys.

[Work Shy]

Botswana, please!

Gaborone would be great while Maun would be awesome. Purely selfish reasons.

[Emma Royds]

Someone has surely got to bring the Chinese?

As for Moroni - more chance of Emirates flying to the moon than going back to that god forsaken place.

[crewmeal]

At the rate Ebola is finding its way around West Africa I wouldn't be surprised if EK pull off more African routes until it's sorted.

[TransitCheck]

They won't do that until we all start dropping dead and they are unable to cover it up in the media.....

OR

Someone brings it to Dubai and an affluent local is infected and dies.

[Emma Royds]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if an individual with Ebola has already ended up in Rashid Hospital. With our diverse network, it is entirely possible that we have had a passenger on board with Ebola.

Along with the current very poor health of Khalifa, an Ebola case in Dubai would be one of the many 'sensitive' stories that the local media wouldn't dare to even think of reporting.

Back to the topic in hand. Sir TC stated on a recent Q&A session on ICE that there are 100 cities that he could rattle off as positively complimenting the EK network. Take 20 or so of those away due to bilateral 'tensions' and we probably have around 80 and to have 10 of those in Africa, seems highly plausible.

[DCS99]

I always listen to STC on ICE and try and read between the lines.

100 possible new destinations?
Need a new Airport for that

Here's one I prepared earlier: DWC...