highwideandugly
More worrying as I said in a previous post is slow decline of the core routes,ABZ and AMS.
Absolutely the most relevant item on the last few threads.
One can pontificate all day as to the existence & effect of specific incentives. However you need to reduce all this down to marketing & the strength of the product.
a)You can palm anything off on an ignorant punter, tell them that the best option to destination "X" is out of airport "Y". However a more informed punters aware of the existence of potential alternatives, are likely to enquire "what about service/route that they had noted" ?
& b) unfortunately for DTV it's not always down to absolute price, but more about customer experience, timings, & convenience.
Getting back to the current issues, then on the presumption that KL & DTV have put the necessary resource into a) then the effect of b) is driving figures forward at NCL at the expence of DTV.
Unfortunately there would appear to be virtually nothing that DTV can do in the short term to address this.
Post Script I noted the progress of "HL" with interest & perhaps staying in a hospital environment is the best place for him, albeit without "KQ" as nurse
