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Pula? No way, not a single route will be added there. In contrary, PUY is another new destination that FR just started to fly to (some four months ago) being doomed to be discontinued very soon, at the end of October. The same fate will share also the second Dalmatian airport - in Zadar. I've just read how shocked by such an unexpected development the local Croatian authorities and businesses in both cities are.
I don't know how deeply involved in recent schedules' changes and route maps' rearrangements MOL has been, or was there someone else backing this hassle, but the one responsible for the latest switches is behaving like a lunatic indeed. Very abrupt changes are resulting in vast chaos over a short period of time. The new destinations are being dismissed even before the customers had the actual chances to realize such routes ever existed. And even worse, extremely good performing routes are being reduced without any logical explanation. Let's take as an example TMP from HHN. Flights to Tampere, definitely one of the top-performing destinations out of the German hub, have been slashed in half without any apparent reason. Pretty high LF's (even in winter for three years in a row), high ticket prices - all that didn't matter.
Reacting fast while markets tend to soften is a very wise thing, but don't be so chaotic in doing your arrangements, it's a best way to antagonize even those committed customers!
Last edited by eu01; 19th Aug 2007 at 17:26.