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 long-haul (11 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.
It's a long-haul business right now. It will be at least three years before anyone can make a serious profit selling digital music.
This coming January, we will deliver the first A330 aircraft to China Eastern Airlines, which will help to further increase its operational flexibility, especially on international and regional long-haul routes.
We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.
Adult gorillas being poached for their meat-baby gorillas stolen for the pet trade. I have just spent a week in West Africa seeing this for myself. I am horrified. I am desperate. But I am determined to do something about it and I'm in it for the long-haul. But I can't do it on my own.
The U.S. Army's transformation demands that smaller groups of forces be able to securely communicate at greater distances. The long-haul capabilities of the ANPRC-150(C) radio systems allow soldiers to transmit voice, data, images, and situational awareness information, using the highest grade of encryption available.
Our Business Research Group survey of 55,000 corporate travelers around the world addressed many more issues, such as call-barring, data services and silent periods, and the interesting question for long-haul flights as to what determines a 'night' period, ... It might be easy on north-south routes, such as Europe to South Africa, but much more difficult on Asia-Europe flights. It may be an 1100 departure from Tokyo to Frankfurt, but we all know the cabin blinds are down and lights out within two to three hours of departure, thereby constituting an artificial 'night' period.
I think there's more of a need for China-based domestic services centered on the huge flow of products from China to North America. The current trucking capabilities are very fragmented ... Our belief is that companies like ours understand how to efficiently move large volumes on a continental or long-haul basis, and we are evaluating how we can assist companies that want to perform that type of transportation.
Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
The low-cost long-haul model has numerous advantages.