UA chiude IAH-LOS, quando il business del petrolio non basta...


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"United to end the IAH-LOS (Lagos, Nigeria) route.
Last flights will be June 29 (eastbound) and June 30 (westbound).
Recent downturn in the energy sector has caused customers to spend less on travel. Additionally, various U.S. companies, including United, have not been able to collect revenue from tickets and cargo sold locally in Nigerian currency. As about half of the revenue generated by the route comes from Nigeria point-of-sale, this has made the route unsustainable.
The 787 aircraft will be redeployed onto the new SFO-TLV (Tel Aviv, Israel) route, which will expand from three-times-weekly to daily in October."
 
East End Ave ha detto:
"United to end the IAH-LOS (Lagos, Nigeria) route.
Last flights will be June 29 (eastbound) and June 30 (westbound).
Recent downturn in the energy sector has caused customers to spend less on travel. Additionally, various U.S. companies, including United, have not been able to collect revenue from tickets and cargo sold locally in Nigerian currency. As about half of the revenue generated by the route comes from Nigeria point-of-sale, this has made the route unsustainable.
The 787 aircraft will be redeployed onto the new SFO-TLV (Tel Aviv, Israel) route, which will expand from three-times-weekly to daily in October."
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E poi ci si chiede perché AZ non riapre la rotta.
 
Interessante anche che la nuova SFO TLV da 3 a 7 frequenze. Sta andando a gonfie vele nonostante la iper distanza
 
Caspita, se si considera che è di per se una rotta del "petrolio" (...o dei petrolieri), se non ci si guadagna o rende quella rotta li vuol dire che è proprio grigia la situazione generale economica nell'Oil & Gas...
 
Penso che l' impossibilità di incassare i biglietti venduti in Nigeria possa essere all' origine anche della recente chiusura di Iberia sulla rotta. Sembra simile alla situazione che si è venuta a creare in Venezuela.
 
Girano voci anche su BA in procinto di prendere decisioni sulla rotta per LOS.
Il country manager della compagnia britannica ha dichiarato che la Nigeria deve $575 milioni alle compagnie aeree (inclusa BA) in biglietti aerei venduti.

British Airways Evaluates Its Nigeria Routes on Traffic, Dollar


  • Sister brand Iberia stopped flying to Lagos on May 12
  • United Airlines plans to halt Nigeria service at end of June

British Airways is evaluating its routes to Nigeria, adding to aviation-industry pressure on the government as sister carrier Iberia and U.S. competitor United Airlines halt flights to the oil-based market as traffic stutters and currency controls delay access to revenue.
The U.K. carrier is struggling to repatriate its share of the $575 million that Nigeria currently owes to airlines globally from tickets sold in the West African nation, said Kola Olayinka, country manager for British Airways’ and Iberia’s parent company, IAG SA. Madrid-based Iberia halted flights on May 12 to Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, “due to very difficult operating circumstances and dwindling passenger numbers,” he said in an e-mailed response to questions.
International Air Transport Association Chief Executive Officer Tony Tyler met with Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo this week, the lobby group said in a statement Wednesday that warned that Lagos could lose its role as a hub to West Africa. United Airlines informed employees on Wednesday that it would end flights from the U.S. to Nigeria on June 30 because of a lack of demand and difficulty in collecting payments.

IAG Chief Executive Officer Willie Walsh said last month that Iberia would stop serving Lagos after the low price of oil caused Nigeria’s economy to contract for the first time since 2004 in the first quarter. Limits on dollar repatriation have been imposed by the Nigerian Central Bank as reserves slip to $26.5 billion, the lowest in more than a decade, from more than $30 billion in early 2015.

“Exiting Nigeria is a very big decision” and “not taken lightly” following London-based British Airways’ 80 years of operations in the country, Olayinka said. “I believe very strongly that we will keep evaluating the situation, but I can assure you, BA is very committed to Nigeria.”
The government is assessing the situation while Central Bank governor Godwin Emefiele has suggested a flexible exchange rate regime that would end the naira’s peg to the U.S. dollar, Olayinka said. IAG is awaiting details of the policy “so that we can start the process of rebuilding,” he said.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...valuates-its-nigeria-routes-on-traffic-dollar

 
Allora direi che non c'è da stupirsi più di tanto se AZ chiuse la rotta. Evidentemente era in perdita o non riuscivano a recuperare i crediti dal Paese.
 
millenove77 ha detto:
Caspita, se si considera che è di per se una rotta del "petrolio" (...o dei petrolieri), se non ci si guadagna o rende quella rotta li vuol dire che è proprio grigia la situazione generale economica nell'Oil & Gas...
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Il problema della chiusura di queste rotte (lo dico con un minimo di cognizione lavorando per una multinazionale O&G) non è solo legato alla crisi del settore (che sta in maniera generale passando attraverso una cura di "cost out" massiccia dopo anni di petrolio a 120 USD) quanto più al fatto che:

1. La Nigeria soffre di una situazione parecchio instabile (i costi legati alla sicurezza sono altissimi ... ed in periodi di margine risicato si fanno sentire)
2. Le politiche monetarie lagate alla loro valuta NGN non aiutano di certo ... e le limitazioni all'export di capitale hanno un impatto marginale vendendo tutti i contratti in USD
3. I voli verso "l'africa petrolifera" sono europa centrici ormai ... poichè le rotte dedicate all'O&G stanno scomparendo (non per una fine del settore ma solo per una assenza di margini ... si è insomma molto attenti al T&L)

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