Air China abbandona Sao Paulo

[gateA1]

Dal 15 settembre verrà cancellata la Madrid- Sao Paulo, parte della rotazione PEK-MAD-GRU. Verrà mantenuto, invece, il Pechino-Madrid 2xw.

Da Airliners.net:

Air China announced today in Sao Paulo that they will drop it's leg MAD-GRU (PEK-MAD will continue) effective September 15.

The decision was made because of high fuel prices and not official, growing competition on GRU-MAD route, new players to Asia (mainly EK), as well as recent immigration problems (up to now a lot of people avoid MAD as a gateway in Europe) at MAD produced a lot of fear on Brazilian travellers which begin to select CDG, MXP, FCO, LIS and other airports as a gateway.

The route begin in December 2006 as 2x weekly and during 2007 has been upgraded to 3x weekly. But since the problems in MAD, CA downgraded the flight back to 2x weekly and even during this high season, keep as 2x weekly (except for 1 week in August).

CA will keep its office in Sao Paulo.

 

[i-givo]

Dal 15 settembre verrà cancellata la Madrid- Sao Paulo, parte della rotazione PEK-MAD-GRU. Verrà mantenuto, invece, il Pechino-Madrid 2xw.

Da Airliners.net:

Air China announced today in Sao Paulo that they will drop it's leg MAD-GRU (PEK-MAD will continue) effective September 15.

The decision was made because of high fuel prices and not official, growing competition on GRU-MAD route, new players to Asia (mainly EK), as well as recent immigration problems (up to now a lot of people avoid MAD as a gateway in Europe) at MAD produced a lot of fear on Brazilian travellers which begin to select CDG, MXP, FCO, LIS and other airports as a gateway.

The route begin in December 2006 as 2x weekly and during 2007 has been upgraded to 3x weekly. But since the problems in MAD, CA downgraded the flight back to 2x weekly and even during this high season, keep as 2x weekly (except for 1 week in August).

CA will keep its office in Sao Paulo.

pfiuuuu....per fortuna che non l'ho prenotato! L'avevo previsto da PEK su GRU, poi ho optato per TG+JJ...

Interessante l'annotazione sulle difficoltà che crea MAD come gateway UE dal Brasile.
Alquanto siongolare perchè comunque le regole dovebbero essere uguali ovunque nella UE.
Ed altrettanto interessante sentire che EK sta iniziando a rappresentare una realtà sul collegamento Asia-GRU grazie al suo volo diretto da DXB...

 

[james84]

PEK-MAD-GRU? Lunghissima! Non sapevo che la facessero!

 

[i-givo]

PEK-MAD-GRU? Lunghissima! Non sapevo che la facessero!

sì 3 volte alla settimana
non è un'idea peregrina...solo che credo EK abbia dato loro fastidio, perchè con la sua tattica il volo DXB-GRU raccoglie pax da tutta l'Asia, mentre da CA chiaramente era più limitata nel feederare il PEK dall'Asia.
L'alternativa da Asia a GRU è via SudAfrica o via Europa, chiaramente

 

[ale94]

si usera' sempre l'A333??? all'inizio usavano il B767-300