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Three business-only airlines - Eos, Maxjet, and Silverjet - filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. So I'm not sure how profitable the business market really is. First Class must be profitable, but there's a natural limit on the number of customers who can afford it - and some of those who can will have their own private jets anyway.

Ryan is naturally aiming for the cattle class market, but I don't think it's going to work. Prices would have to be incredibly low - under £100 - to make people want to give up the small comforts they need on an extended flight.

It might be viable with the usual local subsidies scam, but what are the chances of that working now?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Oct 8th, 2008 at 12:13:47 PM EST
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of the cheap business class airline is not really that of the main airlines.

I don't take Air France because it's cheaper; I take it because I know I can take a flight two hours before or two hours later, or the next day instead of the one I booked.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Oct 8th, 2008 at 02:38:56 PM EST
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