Originally Posted by
CargoOne
I suggest you tell this to Southwest who operating just 513 (Five Hundred and Thirteen) 737-700s and consistently have one of the highest profit margins in aviation. With Germania it is all about half of the fleet parked during the winter generating no revenue and competition with large Locos causing low ticket prices.
Is that not what I said? - Germania IS struggling to find a niche between an IT holiday charter and/or a lo-co - as has all european charter airlines in past 10 years - of whom all have gone bust more or less.
To have winter 'lows' has always been the bug bear of the IT flight industry - make hay in the summers whilst you can was the old adage
As for the 737-700 - GMI is not SW
So to have an older somewhat orphan fleet in between more economical Airbus 319/321 will of course create higher costs in both MX/crewing and ops - hence these are all going this year