Originally Posted by
inOban
What of the future?
1. There is a cohort of Airbus-trained crew looking for new employers.
2. There are a number of Airbus a/c looking for new owners or operators.
3. There are well over a million people who want to go on holiday to the destinations that were served by TC.
4 Their competitors in the UK market fly Boeing and there aren't spare Boeings on the market at least until the Max is allowed to fly.
To me the only obvious provider of replacement holidays is the relaunched easyJet holidays, but only of course for the short haul market, in which (with the rise of Jet2) they were an increasingly minor player. And that would maintain competition in this market.
But I can't see who is going to offer any compensation to TUI in the longhaul business.
While there’s no arguing that EasyJet Holidays will be good for competition, I don’t think they will trump Jet2Holidays, they are increasingly expanding (every other bloody TV ad is Jet2), they seem to be making profit and remain financially stable. They must have a crystal ball which can predict the future in the occ seeing as their disruption is always an absolute minimum.