As forecast at the beginning of the year, full service airlines have begun to look at new ways to encourage travel and provide good deals for their customers on both their long-haul and short-haul routes and these incentives are paying off for some of the carriers, possibly easing the strain of higher fuel costs on the industry.
Quotes about short-haul (7 Quotes)
Our approach has been to deliver long-haul airline standards on short-haul travel. That's something that the short-haul carriers just aren't doing.
Boeing is delighted that DBA has announced its selection of the next-generation 737 to replace its fleet of 737 classics, ... The 737's schedule reliability makes it the perfect airplane for high-frequency, short-haul point-to-point routes within Germany and to other European destinations.
The salt in the wounds for the industry Short-haul flights tend to command higher fares. There's a lot of business travel in short haul, ... That certainly hurt us.
We need to address the problems at Gatwick, but a key part is fleet changes across short-haul operations and we also need to be clear about what destinations we can serve profitably,
The loss of short-haul heavy crude oil imports into the U.S. market is now becoming significant. None of that effect is currently in the U.S. weekly data, although it can be expected to depress imports in at least the next two weeks of data.
Easter breaks for many people will include short-haul trips, where alternative modes of transport are much more practical. Short-haul travel is particularly polluting because the take-off and landing segments, when most fuel is burnt, represent a large proportion of the flight plan.