What effect do you think that DY's new routes to SEA & DEN will have on BA and in the case of the former VS/DL? Will it stimulate traffic or be diverted from existing carriers? Operating out of LHR and high proportion of transfer traffic must give BA an advantage but it could make things harder for VS on the SEA route. Interesting that DY start the routes after the summer peak which seems the wrong time of year.
Its interesting that most of DY's new routes have either been on very thick routes not served from LGW (NYC, LAX, etc) where the Gatwick catchment area in itself is significant or else leisure routes, which tend to have lower barriers to entry. My view is that they might be better looking to regional airports which are still underserved by legacy carriers. I know that VS operates to LAX/SFO from MAN but I would have thought that they would be better going for more routes like that.
What do others think?
Last edited by Peter47; 6th Apr 2017 at 08:02.