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They have to very careful choosing these "one-off" flights, as just mentioned a couple of NY trips or more Marrakesh/Vienna/Budapest/Berlin style flights would maybe work better.....Las Vegas (if they had a bigger a/c) might interest quite a few people.
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Marrakech, Vienna, Budapest and Berlin would all work well as seasonal and year round scheduled flights from NCL, not just One offs. Also Cologne too. Just needs someone with a knack for niches (Jet2!) to come and make them work. Berlin may need to wait until Brandenburg opens though, which could be any time after 2250.
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From what I've heard Cologne, and all of the rest of their routes from NCL worked well for HLX.
I don't see EZY as being the perfect fit, their routes seem to be more "general" than Jet2's
I don't see EZY as being the perfect fit, their routes seem to be more "general" than Jet2's
Can't have worked that well - the airline doesn't exist any more and nobody has stepped into take over the route. And why would Budapest and Berlin work for Jet2 if they didn't for Easy?
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Jet2 flies plenty of routes from Newcastle that easyJet has dropped - Rome, Murcia, Krakow etc. However, it does seem to be more interested in developing holiday destnations rather than city routes.
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Yes but Jet2 Holidays is trying to push their city breaks more now, Jet2's been "getting" 767's for about 5 years or more now, will it happen? Or could some old A330's be on the cards now from someone like EK, right up LS' buy cheap and run them into the ground business model, which I must admit I particularly like because it works. So that would be a reason why LS is more likely to make them work because it has Jet2 holidays to back it up which is more well known that easyjet holidays. Morocco is also an up and coming travel destination, I think I'd like to see LS do something like Marrakech, Agadir, Boa Vista/Sal, Banjul etc. As I say, they know how to work niches. Who would have thought 10 years ago they could have done to LBA what they have done now? And to a lesser extent what they have done at NCL and EMA but LBA, from what I've heard about it's pre LS existence is quote a surprising success story.
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I'm not running or working for an airline, but if it's as easy as you guys make it out to be I might give it a shot. Second hand A330 to Boa Vista/Sal sounds like a money spinner.
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Not A330's for Cape Verde, Morocco etc, that would be massive overkill. 757's would be better
P.S I know you were being sarcastic
P.S I know you were being sarcastic
I predict they'll never do long haul (shopping trips aside) and never have a wide body in their fleet.
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Noticed that with the new TCX A321s coming to NCL next year, the inbound flights from Skiathos will be operating via Kavala, in addition to the SSH flights being capacity restricted.