Originally Posted by
Freehills
Re: HK Airlines & HK Express - that would seem to be an argument in CX favour (vs the pilots) They have grown fast, offering much lower packages to crew.
Shep69 - interesting idea. This is the Jetstar/ Air Asia model, having separate companies in different countries, but all co-ordinated. So it definitely is legally feasible. Each entity would be a separate AOC, with aircraft leased from CX
Yeah....and if you wanted to get really cosmic and keep the jets full (as well as acquire routes or concrete available at airports that aren't saturated) you might be able to combine it with a southwest type model. Fr' instance, a jet might operate Dallas-Osaka-Singapore-Bangkok-HKG-Vancouver. If a pax wanted to go from Dallas to HKG he could change in RJBB to an existing CX route RJBB-VHHH rather than get a competitors flight to ORD or JFK (and then continue on CX to HKG) and the trip might be of similar time. Or if he wanted to go to to Singapore he could stay on the jet and go there. It'd take a pretty active scheduling system, but computers are cheap if you let the experts design them well. It might have the opportunity to have crews and jets not sitting around waiting for something to happen as well.
The only caveat is the whole thing would take a group of folks who really know what they are doing to plan it out and would be willing to delegate important tasks to experts who also knew what they were doing.