Reply To: Emirates dont muck about

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Lady London wrote:

Good on Emirates. Clearly their lawyers involved in drafting that statement.

Lawyers are involved in drafting most press releases, particularly if the company is listed.

This is fairly standard corporate megaphone diplomacy like the recent spat of Tesco vs Heinz, now settled. Emirates will comply with the cuts as have other airlines (and as they have at LGW), but they need a bogeyman to explain cancellations to customers and HAL understands that. As you would expect, HAL has a good high level and operational relationship with its clients, even if in public they fight aggressively re charges or something like this. Other airlines have pushed back to make cutbacks in a way that suits them better than HAL’s proposal, but haven’t made so much noise, but clearly it’s going to be awkward to cancel certain reservations rather than whole flights.

The same process has been going on in Frankfurt, Amsterdam & Paris and it would appear that some airlines have been rather blatant about saying that full fare pax will be prioritised…

We still await the independent slot coordinator’s proposals for distribution of cuts further out.

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