Pete none of us are privy to how much the ME airlines make or don`t
but I was told by someone that Etihad were more than pleased at how
Manchester performs and was told that they are carrying a lot of high value pax
so I guess yield is what they are happy with.
If EK are carrying a near full load of F and J class pax the Y class are icing on the cake and cargo is being turned away which also pays good money
GLA soon to go double daily and NCL upgrade to a larger aircraft MAN to
get B777 on EK21 and A380 on EK19 this year also QR to upgrade to B787 by
end of summer and return to 14 a week by October
If the airlines were not happy these thing would not be happening
Ian