And in the specific case of the United Airlines MAN-EWR route, the company has access to years of data confirming just how successful that route was prior to the covid suspension (withdrawal?).
“We don’t do this for fun...we do it because it makes a return and why does it make a return? because we are providing a service in a market that needs it and wants it”
If we have had interim lightweights supported by interns and 6th formers at the helm in the MAN Routes Department over the last 2 years as MAN juggled its top team, rather than strategists with cunning and guile (as we had in the eighties) it's no wonder we are in trouble
Our previous routes manager was well connected, highly regarded and got things done..... the seeds laid pre covid have bourne fruit as those incumbents who suspended services over the pandemic Eastbound have returned. See Oct pax lvls.
I'm sorry but this doesn't make sense - if the right money was to be made, United would be there. Doubt they are flying elsewhere because the others answered the phone quicker