Originally Posted by
Reversethrustset
Complimenting is largely irrelevant. How does alot of IAGs airlines compliment the other? It doesn't matter and is just semantics. If IAG can turn Flybe into profit then there's the answer; profit, it's as simple as that. You lot do over complicate things sometimes.
It doesn't have to be profitable, good if it is BUT if it delivers profitability to IAG and prevents a customer going elsewhere then even better.
Example would be a Cruise ship leaving from Southampton, taxi service supplied by Cruise company costs £30 a head to someone from London. No chance is Taxi service profitable but the 2 people will spend £20,000 on cruise and onboard plus other competing cruise company at Dover offers 1st class train free. Who cares if Taxi service loses money because it is such a small part of operation. Course if they offered £30 taxi fares from London to Southampton then taxi company would go bust very soon.............. taxi company is Flybe because it has an aircraft to fill rather than a 5 seater car.
IAG has various brands which theoretically should offset one another so when one is up another is down. Swiss had that idea and then 9/11 happened.