Originally Posted by
harriewillem
The general public including myself is to blame.. can you really make money on all in holidays of 600gbp Or 700eur... blame management blame The investor... But The real problem.. us The passengers want to pay peanuts...
very fair point BUT the I/tour and holiday charter market has been boom or bust since the days of British Eagle Channel Airways Court Line/Clarksons/Horizon and Laker/Lord Brothers/Arrowsmith
and in Germany we have lost LTU aero Lloyd and many others swallowed up by either of the Thomas Cook and TUI giants
the fine line of bums on seats, having a decent product, selling at a competitive price because Joe Public always wants a bargain and getting the right amount of income back to make even a squidgy amount of profit is walking a tight rope
throw in an Arab war/oil conflict or two then a $/£/e turmoil - add a bit of instability in a once popular tourist hot spot now becomes a terrorist and security hot spot and bang there goes your holiday company and airline down the drain
Oh and yes add in the giants of Ryan-air Easy-jet Norwegian and the other new lo-co kids on the block and where do you start to make money and offer a product nowadays that the punters want and where do you fly to when you have lost your core market to the likes of Arab Spring Isis and the $$ turmoil