Cxorcist, very very good posts....at the risk of sounding a bit redneck there's way too many armchair quarterbacks on this forum who seem unable to see further than a full aeroplane ...we all like to bemoan our management, but as pilots, who are we to debate the viability of any particular route without not only the details but also the expertise to analyse those details .....there are whole departments and sophisticated computer programmes that crunch the numbers constantly to assess weather or not we should serve Lagos or Nairobi, Barcelona, or Honolulu, and if the projections don't stack up, then we don't do it...surely better to be cautious and keep money in the bank than expand exponentially and with gay abandon like someone like Virgin whose staff are constantly under the threat of the next round of redundancies because of the uncertainties this modern world casts upon the thinner than thin margins they have on a route that seemed a good idea 2 years ago.......now ..as for the product...well that's an entirely different matter
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