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On the other hand you have large airlines veing created in the past 3-4 years...

But the majority is not at the standard of aviationn geeks.

And 90% of the perception is rather driven by cabin design. On long haul it makes a difference, but on the typical European short haul route rather not.

Most of them especially in the leisure part do not even know with whom they are flying.

Reliance on wet leases as a strategy concerns me not a little. This is not a strategy shared by the other (so-called) full-service carriers Brussels wants to compete with, and for a reason: pretty hard to maintain consistent hard/soft product standards. If wet leases are not strategically deployed,...

It is fully understandable that people are curious . Just that this business is a little bit more complicated than a marketing speech. Delta is a profitability king by deliberately choosing to run a mix of new and older aircraft ( the 717 are a classic example of getting a right fit subfleet at low ...

Who says this? It is a first allocation from group deliveries. There is more to come with the phase out of the 319. Tell us when approximately please. 2030 ? In the meantime the airline does not make the profits it could make if it had less fuel consuming aircraft. Do you have in real life any job ...

Who says this?
It is a first allocation from group deliveries.
There is more to come with the phase out of the 319.

Sure, it is.

But nevertheless, as IAG has a minority stake they are presenting their brand startegy at the capital market days. You can check the presentation on the IAG website, it is public information.

IAG is comunicating clearly their brand positions

Full service- BA, Iberia

Value - Air Europa, Aer Lingus

Low cost - Vueling, Level

Obviously the LH Group would be more or less similar

Full Service - Swiss, LH

Value - Austrian, Brussels, Edelweiss, Discover

Low Cost - Eurowings

You'll never know. But any brand would like the economics of getting 40 B737 MAX in 5 years.

Not really. Typically not dedicated fleet is allocated 2 years in advance - so as an educated guess there would be a decision for 2026/27 max. As approx 3/year are already planned for Swiss and Austrian shall become replacement for it's own six A321, if staying with Airbus. So around 5-7 deliveries...

The interview has just common sense answers, nothing more, nothing less. It is not intended to satisfy the curiosity of aviation geeks and it is neither black or white. And everything stated there is in line with what the LH Group is practicing as modus operandi, outside of some tactical fleet alloc...

Nothing to thank.

I am neither an insider nor a an employee having understandable interest or fear on my job.

Just trying to to follow the logic communicated by management and their steps - regardless if right or wrong.

Talking about harmonization... Just out of curiosity, does anyone have an idea why SN and Eurowings are getting different engines than LH, LX and OS ? Simple : - at a certain size of subfleet you don't have more synergies, so it is better to put your eggs in more baskets- we speak about around 400 ...

Not really. Typically not dedicated fleet is allocated 2 years in advance - so as an educated guess there would be a decision for 2026/27 max. As approx 3/year are already planned for Swiss and Austrian shall become replacement for it's own six A321, if staying with Airbus. So around 5-7 deliveries ...

Nothing new, but exactly what is communicated since 2 years.

https://simpleflying.com/brussels-airli ... ore-a330s/

The article has little research and the author has a long history on writing missmatches with respect to LH.

Let's talk in 2 years about the Africa strategy, theb we'll see it, as the needed puzzle parts would be more than paper and assumptions.

Well, there are things in the article not well specified. - MUC has capacity and currently growing- the next 10xA359 are going there replacing 5xA346 - FRA has limited terminal capacity, but this is sorted out once the " others" would go into terminal 3 and LH would get terminal 2 space - ...

Well, you need to face 2 realities: - all brands not able to afford new aircraft getthem when intra group aircraft become available - as long as B789 and 3359 are delayed, everyone in the queue is getting it's aircraft later - unless it has an economic case like OS with the 2 extra 788 - a Brand doe...

And the last tutboprops of OS were exchanged with 6 A320. For them it seems to pay off. Sorry to correct a factual error: the 6 A320 were not meant as a replacement for the Dash-8, but for the phasing out of the A319 sub-fleet. The Dash-8 routes are mainly flown by the E195 - which is also much bet...