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Old 12th Nov 2009, 21:26
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Personally, for the reasons mentioned above, I can't see why they'd do this, as having a dedicated stream of customers coming in from the tour operators and important third-party contracts is much lower-risk than having to market flights yourself. Remember, a lot of the TCX managers are legacy MyTravel, and this includes people who were here during MyTravelLite. Yes, a good marketing exercise and raised the profile of the seat-only business, but it never made money apparently and was easily attacked by the "true" low-cost airlines when they arrived at BHX. Stranger things have happened, and Condor in Germany has a strong seat-only business, but not sure, especially with TOM removing capacity from the seat-only market, why TCX would go into it.
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