What is the market size for premium services and which of them are viable?
Maxjet – recently bankrupt, shut down except for charters.
Eos – bankrupt, shut down.
Silverjet – still flying. Are they profitable?
L´Avion – still flying. Are they profitable?
Eurofly – what are they doing?
Privatair – flying. They shut down some lines, like Houston, only to open others, like Poona. Their 767-300ER, however, is for charter rather than scheduled services.
Singapore Airways A340-500 – flying. Planning to refit as all business this month.
BA Open Skies – is the plan still going ahead?
BA A318 – is that plan still going ahead?
Any other serious projects?
By: Skymonster - 1st May 2008 at 16:36
BA Open Skies – is the plan still going ahead?
Yes, although this is NOT a premium service – it is using 757s fitted with club world (business), world-traveller-plus (premium economy) and world-traveller (economy). It is in this respect similar to Air France Dedicate, which uses A319s with long range tanks and long-haul business and economy seats on low demand long-haul routes to Africa and the Middle East.
Privatair – flying. They shut down some lines, like Houston, only to open others, like Poona.
Privatair are not operating premium services in their own right – they are operating all-business class services for Lufthansa, Swiss and KLM. In the case of Lufthansa, the aircraft has been moved as the routes develop – for example, the aircraft that is being put into India was operating a service that has developed to the extent where it can now support an A340, so switching the aircraft can hardly be regarded as a failure.
Andy
By: chornedsnorkack - 1st May 2008 at 11:51
I heard a radio interview with the boss of Silverjet just after EOS went bust, he claimed that Silverjet would have been in profit this year with around 80% passenger loading’s but for the rise in fuel prices. A small rise in the fares to cover the increased fuel prices would see the airline in profit for the first time later in the year, we shall see.
The fuel prices rise for legacies just as well, so that the business class ticket prices on coach-and-premium carriers ought to be rising. Enabling Silverjet to raise their prices as well.
By: arkrailuk - 1st May 2008 at 11:07
I heard a radio interview with the boss of Silverjet just after EOS went bust, he claimed that Silverjet would have been in profit this year with around 80% passenger loading’s but for the rise in fuel prices. A small rise in the fares to cover the increased fuel prices would see the airline in profit for the first time later in the year, we shall see.
By: Deano - 1st May 2008 at 09:48
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