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Originally Posted by inOban View Post
'As for transit passengers using a hub airport, their value is mainly, I would have thought, is that they sustain routes which would not be viable on their own. This is vital for places like Iceland - how many routes could it sustain on its own?
But I'm not sure how important it is to London. What proportion of LHR PAX are transit?
Roughly a third.
And declining
AND the airlines like this trajectory as it increases yield potential on the Point to point/foreign hub.
Heathrow produces some pretty strong returns in the middle cabins from/to London not replicated by feeders from anywhere else.
Those feeders are alleged to bleed rather dark claret in many/most cases.
This also belies the oft quoted Long Haul needs feed to support xyz marginal routes - No one ever gives an example because at thirty % and declining there are rather few routes where the feed makes the difference between operating or not a particular route to/from Heathrow.