Originally Posted by
EK77WNCL
Give us a 787, save on fuel, make an agreement with Emirates, fill with ongoing cargo, before you know it NCL is an East-West cargo hub with a daily 787 to New York
In all seriousness I hope we get lucky and UA give us another year to prove ourselves, although they'll probably use it as ammunition in the ME3/US3 debate... "Emirates must be subsidised because they fly a daily 777 to Dubai, where no-one would ever want to go, and haven't pulled out. But we fly a 5 weekly 757 to a city everybody wants to be in and can't turn a profit and have been FORCED to cut the route"
Maybe the high fares have meant it has actually broken even...?
The problem is that if EWR isn't planned to continue, at some frequency, through the Winter season, then a lot of the groundwork done in S15 is undone as a result of the service break. Any business traffic (the profitable element) gained this summer will revert to hubbing over AMS / LHR or flying direct from MAN / EDI and then they will have to fight to get it back to NCL.
Anyway, lets hope the yields overall have been good enough for UA to return next summer - at least they haven't pulled it mid season, so surely it can't be that dire.