Originally Posted by
akerosid
Alternatively, could it be that DM has finally tumbled to the realisation that EI's best hope of success on t/a routes - even when the stopover ratio is reduced - is to have FR on board as a partner?
DM's best hope of gaining immediate growth on long-haul is to team up with his ex-employers Emirates. They have the largest order book for wide-body aircraft in the world. Plus - Aer Lingus have one thing which EK covet badly: those slots at LHR, which Aer Lingus/Ireland woulnd't need if they had a sufficient long-haul operation out of Dublin.
When the ratio is relaxed, the US carriers will make life very hard for EI...
EI have one advantage over all the US carriers - they're a OneWorld partner with American, and the two together can feed traffic to each others short-haul networks on their respective sides of the Atlantic.