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Re: Is Lufthansa trying to compete with the resurgence of European sleeper trains?
Author: earthbound
Date: 08-02-2021 - 08:10

Hardly.

Read the article. It's expansion of semi-business-class service (lie-flat/sleeper seats, but without the other bennies) on a very long-haul run. The fact that it's on 747s emphasizes that it's self-limiting - the seats were probably already there; they just changed some ticketing boundaries. Totally different market. If Lufthansa were reequipping some A320s or 737s like that, and running them within Europe, it might be different, but an "overnight" flight there is more like one that leaves at 0100 and arrives at 0300 or 0400 - hardly a sleeper proposition.

The sleeper trains have a niche to exploit that's fairly competition-proof by the airlines, really. It's a small one, but probably worth working on.

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  Is Lufthansa trying to compete with the resurgence of European sleeper trains? E.H. Scaryman 08-02-2021 - 06:27
  Re: Is Lufthansa trying to compete with the resurgence of European sleeper trains? earthbound 08-02-2021 - 08:10
  Re: Is Lufthansa trying to compete with the resurgence of European sleeper trains? E.H. Scaryman 08-02-2021 - 09:24
  Re: Is Lufthansa trying to compete with the resurgence of European sleeper trains? Commenter 08-02-2021 - 11:13
  limited to “flights of approximately eleven hours or more.” - That is not considered competing with trains Kraut 08-02-2021 - 19:58


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