Non riesco piu' a trovare il thread dove si parlava dell'apertura della rotta (credo quello su fallimento di Airberlin), fatto sta che a soli 7 mesi dagli annunci roboanti dell'apertura hanno deciso di chiudere la rotta, in evidente difficolta'. (aggiungerei in perfetto stile PEK di AZ)
Lufthansa to axe Berlin-New York route
[FONT=effra_lightregular]There was much excitement in the German capital last Autumn when Lufthansa mainline relaunched its New York route.
Lufthansa had last operated the important Berlin-New York service back in 2001. Since then it had been in the hands of Air Berlin which, as readers will know, failed earlier last year.
However the eventual plan was, as we reported at the time, for Lufthansa mainline to transfer the route to its budget subsidiary Eurowings later this month.
And now Bloomberg reveals that Lufthansa has decided to axe the route altogether.
Indeed a quick check with lufthansa.com shows that the non-stop Berlin-New York service disappears from the inventory in a fortnight’s time.
Why? Lufthansa’s CEO Carsten Spohr claims the route is unprofitable and would be unlikely to turn a profit unless it were to secure better timings.
Bloomberg reports that Lufthansa has been unable to do this both at JFK and Newark airports.
Here we are talking about the sort of timings which would appeal more to high-revenue business rather than low-revenue leisure travellers.
Current timings involve a departure from Berlin Tegel in the late afternoon to give an arrival into JFK in the late evening.
The return flight departs JFK near midnight and arrives into Tegel the following day in the late morning,
Lufthansa says that passengers will be accommodated on United but then flying from Berlin Tegel to Newark (rather than JFK).
Travellers wanting to take Lufthansa mainline will have to route via the carrier’s Frankfurt hub.
Given Lufthansa’s size and importance one wonders why it was unable to wield more clout with JFK (for better slot times). And why, especially as it operates a commercial agreement with United, it was unable to do likewise at Newark.
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https://www.businesstraveller.com/b...il&utm_term=0_0f9ce7ba66-3bd14187f6-164779345
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[/FONT]Germany’s Biggest Airline Culls Berlin-New York Route
Lufthansa says it can’t fly profitably to U.S. metropolis
Lack of attractive landing times blamed for withdrawal
Germany’s biggest airline is ending services between Berlin and New York, and it has nothing to do with tariffs, trade wars or Donald Trump.
Deutsche Lufthansa AG will stop linking the German capital with the U.S. city’s John F. Kennedy airport after failing to bag optimal landing times needed to fill planes and turn a profit, Chief Executive Officer Carsten Spohr said Thursday.
Lufthansa introduced the JFK service following the collapse of local rival Air Berlin Plclast year, serving the route five times weekly with an Airbus SE A330 wide-body jet. Trouble is, the flight departs Berlin’s Tegel airport at 5:35 p.m. and doesn’t arrive in the U.S. until after 9:30 p.m. local time. The return service leaves at 11:20 p.m. and lands in Germany around noon the next day.
Spohr looked at switching the New York route to Lufthansa’s no-frills Eurowings arm, which has a lower cost base, but the carrier was unable to secure more-attractive landing slots even after scouting out Newark airport in New Jersey.
Lufthansa will retain a New York link of sorts, selling seats to Newark on flights operated by partner United Airlines, though people who want to stick with the German carrier will have to travel via Frankfurt. With the summer timetable travelers can also fly direct from Berlin with Delta Air Lines Inc.
The focus of long-haul operations at Eurowings is meanwhile shifting to Dusseldorf, another former Air Berlin base. While low on tourist appeal, the city has a catchment of 10 million people and more business traffic than the capital, acting as Germany’s third transfer hub after Frankfurt and Munich.
Berlin has a population 3.5 million and Tegel, an overcrowded relic of the Cold War era, lacks even an automated baggage-sorting system, among other flaws. London and Paris aside, few European cities can sustain long-haul flights without connecting passengers, Spohr said -- even to the Big Apple.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-biggest-airline-culls-berlin-new-york-route
Lufthansa to axe Berlin-New York route
[FONT=effra_lightregular]There was much excitement in the German capital last Autumn when Lufthansa mainline relaunched its New York route.
Lufthansa had last operated the important Berlin-New York service back in 2001. Since then it had been in the hands of Air Berlin which, as readers will know, failed earlier last year.
However the eventual plan was, as we reported at the time, for Lufthansa mainline to transfer the route to its budget subsidiary Eurowings later this month.
And now Bloomberg reveals that Lufthansa has decided to axe the route altogether.
Indeed a quick check with lufthansa.com shows that the non-stop Berlin-New York service disappears from the inventory in a fortnight’s time.
Why? Lufthansa’s CEO Carsten Spohr claims the route is unprofitable and would be unlikely to turn a profit unless it were to secure better timings.
Bloomberg reports that Lufthansa has been unable to do this both at JFK and Newark airports.
Here we are talking about the sort of timings which would appeal more to high-revenue business rather than low-revenue leisure travellers.
Current timings involve a departure from Berlin Tegel in the late afternoon to give an arrival into JFK in the late evening.
The return flight departs JFK near midnight and arrives into Tegel the following day in the late morning,
Lufthansa says that passengers will be accommodated on United but then flying from Berlin Tegel to Newark (rather than JFK).
Travellers wanting to take Lufthansa mainline will have to route via the carrier’s Frankfurt hub.
Given Lufthansa’s size and importance one wonders why it was unable to wield more clout with JFK (for better slot times). And why, especially as it operates a commercial agreement with United, it was unable to do likewise at Newark.
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https://www.businesstraveller.com/b...il&utm_term=0_0f9ce7ba66-3bd14187f6-164779345
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[/FONT]Germany’s Biggest Airline Culls Berlin-New York Route
Lufthansa says it can’t fly profitably to U.S. metropolis
Lack of attractive landing times blamed for withdrawal
Germany’s biggest airline is ending services between Berlin and New York, and it has nothing to do with tariffs, trade wars or Donald Trump.
Deutsche Lufthansa AG will stop linking the German capital with the U.S. city’s John F. Kennedy airport after failing to bag optimal landing times needed to fill planes and turn a profit, Chief Executive Officer Carsten Spohr said Thursday.
Lufthansa introduced the JFK service following the collapse of local rival Air Berlin Plclast year, serving the route five times weekly with an Airbus SE A330 wide-body jet. Trouble is, the flight departs Berlin’s Tegel airport at 5:35 p.m. and doesn’t arrive in the U.S. until after 9:30 p.m. local time. The return service leaves at 11:20 p.m. and lands in Germany around noon the next day.
Spohr looked at switching the New York route to Lufthansa’s no-frills Eurowings arm, which has a lower cost base, but the carrier was unable to secure more-attractive landing slots even after scouting out Newark airport in New Jersey.
Lufthansa will retain a New York link of sorts, selling seats to Newark on flights operated by partner United Airlines, though people who want to stick with the German carrier will have to travel via Frankfurt. With the summer timetable travelers can also fly direct from Berlin with Delta Air Lines Inc.
The focus of long-haul operations at Eurowings is meanwhile shifting to Dusseldorf, another former Air Berlin base. While low on tourist appeal, the city has a catchment of 10 million people and more business traffic than the capital, acting as Germany’s third transfer hub after Frankfurt and Munich.
Berlin has a population 3.5 million and Tegel, an overcrowded relic of the Cold War era, lacks even an automated baggage-sorting system, among other flaws. London and Paris aside, few European cities can sustain long-haul flights without connecting passengers, Spohr said -- even to the Big Apple.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-biggest-airline-culls-berlin-new-york-route
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