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Old 9th Nov 2006, 18:33
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OltonPete
 
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Marketing/Pax/Bean Counters

From the outside it is difficult to know who to blame (Market or Bean)
but at present there is a lack of or too much choice with some routes
- 15 EdI's a day (okay soon to change) but no Rome, Stockholm etc etc.

However it is not all doom and gloom, still over 9 Million pax, 2 Dubai's
a day and yes Management did hang on to BA's coat-tails for far too long
but if the rumours are correct they were actually trying to do
something about it before the BA/BE announcement (not just Baby).

Add a few Eastern European, Italian flights, one more transatlantic and perhaps Qatar and I think matters would be a whole lot different.

Ideally Easy would be a good alternative (FR is never going to happen)
to add competition to BE & WW but that is just wishful thinking .

Pete
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