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Old 8th Jan 2013, 19:48
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EI-BUD
 
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Virgin Atlantic, Air Transat, Emirates or Etihad ?
Mlinnie,

I think that given the tie up between Aer Lingus and Virgin on domestic flights, this would have a huge bearing on

1. whether Virgin would wish to compete with EI on LHR BFS and given the link between EI and VS, it would make better sense of codeshare and feed pax from BHD through LHR on EI

2. In the unlikely event that VS did enter the market it would have to be EI serviced, and therefore cannot see it being to BFS

As regards VS, the summer must hold demand and profitable demand for flights to Orlando or Toronto, and now that VS have 330, this could work. though they were in talking before, widely commented on but a bit late for 2013, maybe 2014. Who knows...
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