Post by tris06 on Jun 9, 2015 19:36:17 GMT 1
I can probably help here with that question.
I often fly the TPE-BKK-AMS flight which is a torture on the A340. Was much nicer when it was the 747.
Bascially from TPE-BKK and back its all Thai and Taiwanese with a very low number of Europeans and etc.
Of course from BKK-AMS and vis versa its nearly opposite with 80 percent of the plane filled with Europeans.
Why they dont fly direct? Because there are still restrictions. Flying from Taiwan to another country straight over the PRC is not currently allowed. However they can fly to Mainland China where they have the convoluted solution to sort of see it as a domestic flight unofficially.
So if you watch flights TPE-FRA and when they were flying directly to London (was scrapped 2-3 years ago)
They actually flight north east at first and usually go around the top end of China (sometimes cutting across the north-east tip of China). And then they swing around to the west and fly over Russia. It makes for a very long flight and so for a long flight they need higher yields.
AMS even direct from TPE is lower yield than FRA hence they go to BKK which could use the extra capacity and they can pick up low yielding passengers to AMS. The route I doubt makes much money if any because they sell economy pretty cheap (I tend not to go that cheap so I can earn my miles) and Business class sells really cheap I talked often to people saying they got 1200 pound return trip on the flight on and off.
Anyway because its cheap all round the flight is almost always full but yeah low yield. The lady at the airline says there is plenty of competition.
I often fly the TPE-BKK-AMS flight which is a torture on the A340. Was much nicer when it was the 747.
Bascially from TPE-BKK and back its all Thai and Taiwanese with a very low number of Europeans and etc.
Of course from BKK-AMS and vis versa its nearly opposite with 80 percent of the plane filled with Europeans.
Why they dont fly direct? Because there are still restrictions. Flying from Taiwan to another country straight over the PRC is not currently allowed. However they can fly to Mainland China where they have the convoluted solution to sort of see it as a domestic flight unofficially.
So if you watch flights TPE-FRA and when they were flying directly to London (was scrapped 2-3 years ago)
They actually flight north east at first and usually go around the top end of China (sometimes cutting across the north-east tip of China). And then they swing around to the west and fly over Russia. It makes for a very long flight and so for a long flight they need higher yields.
AMS even direct from TPE is lower yield than FRA hence they go to BKK which could use the extra capacity and they can pick up low yielding passengers to AMS. The route I doubt makes much money if any because they sell economy pretty cheap (I tend not to go that cheap so I can earn my miles) and Business class sells really cheap I talked often to people saying they got 1200 pound return trip on the flight on and off.
Anyway because its cheap all round the flight is almost always full but yeah low yield. The lady at the airline says there is plenty of competition.
