Originally Posted by myekppa
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and Emirates dropped out of the Hamburg-JFK market for similar reasons
EK dropped out of HAM-JFK because the demand was for DXB-JFK. HAM became a meaningless tech stop for 300 transit pax and 50 joiners. Difficult to grow a market when the flight is already full so it became a non-stop service.
Incorrect. The HAM - JFK was the third JFK flight from DXB; the original 201/203 services were ALREADY running. The 205 did not grow into a direct service but rather was withdrawn as a means (according to HAM station staff at the time) of pacifying LH and the German government as EK tried to open Berlin and/or Stuttgart...
When I operated that particular flight there was a lot of HAM - JFK traffic and vice versa!