wrote:
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 19:39:01 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 20:21:52 on Tue, 17
Dec 2013, tim...... remarked:
Intra UK transit pax are not the problem. It's the perceived need to
steal pax from other European carries at major European "hubs", that is

I was researching flights to SA the other day and it is 20% cheaper to
fly LHR-FRA-CPT with LH than it is to fly FRA-CPT

OTOH it is 20% cheaper to fly FRA-LHR-CPT with BA than it is to fly LHR-CPT.

So the reason that LHR needs to be a hub is because BA (apparently)
can't fill a plane from LHR to CPT without "bribing" pax from Germany
to fly via London.

You really don't understand yield management, do you?

It's about selling the highest priced fares to people who insist in
direct flights, then filling the remaining seats with people on feeders
from nearby. The result maximises revenue, even if some people get
cheaper flights as a result of agreeing to be those indirect passengers.


Regardless , the whole motive behind blighting somewhere in the southeast
with another runway seems to be so that airlines and BAA can make more profit.
It has zilch to do with the UK economy other than the small amount of extra
corporation tax it would deliver which would be more than ofset by the billions
it would cost to build the thing in the first place even with partial private
finance. Its a cynical campaign by private corporations for the government to
spend huge amounts of public money on some infrastructure that will benefit
almost no one economically except themselves and their shareholders.

Who do you think would pay for the expansion of Heathrow? Not the
government.