The two business-class only airlines (EOS and MaxJets) have launched, and there will doubtless be plenty of upcoming coverage, since who doesn't like "testing" a new airline with lay-flat seats. There's just one problem: They routes are NYC-London, yes, but the arrival airport is Stansted, which is not convenient for anything except the budget airlines. Frankly, I think even Gatwick is annoying. For someone who just dropped serious cash on a flight that's business class only, it seems unlikely they'll want to continue their trip on a plane that has a giant phone number painted on the side.
It's a good idea for a low-cost international airline, when a JetBlue arrives that flies from JFK to secondary European cities (JFK-Dubrovnik would clean up, as would flying to Prague and making it a hub, but I digress). It's another example of how international flights have yet to be revolutionized in the same way as low-fare domestic travel. Perhaps Delta will take what it learned at Song and apply it to these new nonstops it's running. Though, to be fair, they were similar to a lot of the nonstops that they used to run about ten years ago, and they are playing catch-up to what Continental was doing with their nonstops to Berlin, Stockholm, and elsewhere.
Also, where was everyone hiding all these 757s?
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