Rick,
in che percentuale è quantificabile l'"effetto A380", inteso come aumento di pax su una determinata rotta quando il whale-jet sostituisce un altro aereo?
Sempre che siano info pubblicabili.
Grazie.
"A380 Effect" on International Route
Source: CARNOC.com Author: Sissi 05/26/2011
"A380 effect" refers to the airlines which use A380 to fly international routes, will see a significant increase in load factor and market share.
Through the winter flight schedule of 2008, Singapore Airlines (SIA) operated Singapore-Hong Kong service using Boeing B747-400, with load factors at about 74 percent. The carrier held a 48 percent market share on the route, while the rest 52 percent share belonged to its rival Cathay Pacific Airways (CAP). However, during the same period of 2009, SIA's load factors on the route rose to 77 percent, with the market share jumping to 52 percent compared with CAP's 48 percent. SIA began to use A380 to operate the Singapore-Hong Kong route since July 2009. The carrier's Boeing 747 service on the route saw a decline in terms of load factor due to seasonal factor. All of this has occurred during the downturn and that makes "A380 effect" even more remarkable.
"A380 effect" on the Singapore-Hong Kong route was not unique. 33 A380 aircraft in service with SIA, Emirates Airline, Qantas Airways, Air France and Lufthansa have all showed this effect. A380 has a powerful magic in attracting passengers. Qantas Airways' data shows that the introduction of A380 on Australia-Europe route makes its load factors 7- 8 percentage points higher than the B747-400 service on the same route. On the Sydney-Singapore route Qantas has 74 percent load factors on A380 flights, but only 68 percent on B747-400 flights. When other carriers were experiencing 3 percent drop in traffic on the Singapore-Tokyo Narita route, SIA, by introducing an A380, had a 7 percent traffic gain. During the global recession time, British Airways saw B747-400 London- Dubai load factors fall to 65 percent from 83 percent; however, the load factors of Emirates' A380 climbed to 89 percent from 87 percent during the same period. The load factors of Air France's Paris-New York A380 service were 5 percentage points higher than its rivals on the same route.
A380 has brought huge benefits to airlines in capacity, fuel consumption, etc. The introduction of a new model will surely bring about those effects given that B747-400 has already had a history of 40 years. Currently, driven by the "A380 effect", airlines which haven't bought the aircraft, especially Japanese and the U.S. airlines, are expressing their purchase intentions, while other airlines which have put A380 into service are adding their A380 orders. According to Airbus' data, the aircraft manufacturer won 20 new orders for the A380 in 2010. An order for 32 from Emirates brings the carrier's total A380 firm orders to 90.