Originally Posted by
tigertanaka
BA/Sun Air will continue to operate the route for Astra Zeneca employees but the flights will not be publicly bookable. This is apparently to save costs. I flew this route a couple of weeks ago an there were 8 passengers on the plane.
There may be an obvious answer I am missing but how exactly will this save costs? Surely any public tickets sold subsidise the cost to AZ/BA? I presume the AZ employees still have to clear security and have use of the terminal/lounge so where do the savings come from?