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Old 10th Mar 2011, 18:43
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New long haul routes

I think the failure of Dubai and the success of Etihad has scuppered routes to the east for a long time to come. The A330 is probably too big for some possible US routes - look what the US majors have done with the aging B757's over the Atlantic. West coast is too far for B757 of course. I believe a smaller plane would have worked on Dulles/Baltimore. There are not that many other east coast possibilities left with US Air, Delta, Continental, American and, over the summer Air Canada/Air Transat well established. It seems to me therefore that its NYC, Boston, Chicago where the VFR possibilities are good plus Orlando for Disney for the medium term at least.
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