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Old 22nd Aug 2006, 13:48
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Originally Posted by daz211
the best thing BA could have done was to sell up and keep
GO airlines as its main business what a mistake BA made
Originally Posted by daz211
I would be intrested to see pax number ( bums on seats)
stats for both airlines BA and FR I think that Ryanair is now
more popular than British airways and must have a more
modern fleet
This demonstrates a fundamental misapprehension of what BA is about. Longhaul premium is BA's main business. Even within BA longhaul, the total bums-on-seats number is less important than the rather smaller bums-on-premium-seats number. So who cares how many bums FR gets on flights of only 2-3 hours in length? Comparing that to BA's bums-on-seats number is comparing chalk and cheese. Only someone with a very superficial idea of what these two airlines are about (or, alternatvely, someone who manipulates these numbers for FR's PR department) could get excited about such a comparison.
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