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Old 23rd Sep 2003, 01:57
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George Tower
 
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THH

Its about time that offered backed up your cliam that "Comair is bad for Kulula" with some reasoning.

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I think the chances of Kulula going global are slim.

1. It hasn't happened in Europe - easyjet, ryanair fly short sectors around western europe. Not even after the collapse of transatlantic market post 9/11 did they try to have a go.

2. Fact is from a pax point of view you can stick no frills for short trips but anything more than 3 hour flights I'd say that the public want a full service.

3. Easyjet and Ryanair cannot be booked through travel agents - thats one of the savings they make as they don't have to pay comission to travel agents.

If Kulula was divorced by Comair there are numerous expenses that they would incur from having to set up a new crewing department, recurrent training, new finance departments, new HR departments, new maintenance contracts, etc.
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