Lan Dominicana will say good-bye soon!

[aviastar]

Lan Chile is thinking to stop non-profitable operations MIA SDQ MIA. 4 weekly flights have no future, load factor is very low, acceptance of these flights is weak.

Unfortunately Dominican Republic is the country that has no idea how to handle airline business. Passengers do not believe in this aviation. Luck of trust, fear to be treated badly and few other reasons will always bother dominican skies.

This country has no professionals who are able to administrate airlines, people are interested in politic demonstration in the street, many can't read, majority has no idea how to find Switzerland or France on the map, so who will trust to dominican airlines? All they need is image, and 10 USD difference is nothing compared to secure and comfortable CO's 777.

Passengers are enrolled to Frequent Miles programmes, they will never change their carriers, maybe those who read this forum will use a new airline to pay 25 USD less, but 90% of passengers will not! And since the majority of non-dominican passengers will never board dominican airline, this is the result!

It is time to become a serious country!

[Mark1]

Originally Posted by aviastar

Lan Chile is thinking to stop non-profitable operations MIA SDQ MIA. 4 weekly flights have no future, load factor is very low, acceptance of these flights is weak.

Unfortunately Dominican Republic is the country that has no idea how to handle airline business. Passengers do not believe in this aviation. Luck of trust, fear to be treated badly and few other reasons will always bother dominican skies.

This country has no professionals who are able to administrate airlines, people are interested in politic demonstration in the street, many can't read, majority has no idea how to find Switzerland or France on the map, so who will trust to dominican airlines? All they need is image, and 10 USD difference is nothing compared to secure and comfortable CO's 777.

Passengers are enrolled to Frequent Miles programmes, they will never change their carriers, maybe those who read this forum will use a new airline to pay 25 USD less, but 90% of passengers will not! And since the majority of non-dominican passengers will never board dominican airline, this is the result!

It is time to become a serious country!

The more I read this forum the more I think I 'd better choose a different country to move, keep coming the good news ( Never mind I had a very bad day...)

[aviastar]

if it is not a secret, what country are you from? Am I correct that you want to move here?

[santobonao]

Its sad that about 3-4 airlines (Aeromar, Aerocontiente dominicana, Mexicana and now Lan dominicana) have already left Santo Domingo-Miami market.

[GRS]

Don't speculate that early that load factors were the reason for the pull out. It is of my opinion that pulling out in the begining of high season sounds fishy. I rather believe that they need the a/c for better utilization or that AA put some pressure on them since they will lose potential revenue out of the NYC market. They are opening LanArgentina so maybe they need the a/c to fly long routes from EZE. I agree that it is not a wise decision to pull out since they will lose the market for a very long time. Dominicans are tired of believing in an airline that will go either bankrupt or out of the country.

Everybody is always saying that American this and American that, but in the end, it is the airline that get us from point A to point B.

[santobonao]

GRS,
You right, AA take you from Point a to Point B, All year around.

[777-200]

Originally Posted by santobonao

GRS,
You right, AA take you from Point a to Point B, All year around.

Helloooooo
More airlines in the DR .......knock knock........CO have 15 years in the country. Never stop flying due to employee strike. and today is flying the most modern aircraft 777-200 and 767-400.

15 years non stop. AA is not the only one. OK

[ricktoronto]

Originally Posted by GRS

Everybody is always saying that American this and American that, but in the end, it is the airline that get us from point A to point B.

777-200 has a conniption fit if anyone suggests anything but CO's one flight a day from JFK even if it means to avoid AA you should travel via China. Cracks me up, but hopefully they reward him with an extra bacg of pretzels.

[ERICKXSON]

Originally Posted by aviastar

Lan Chile is thinking to stop non-profitable operations MIA SDQ MIA. 4 weekly flights have no future, load factor is very low, acceptance of these flights is weak.

Unfortunately Dominican Republic is the country that has no idea how to handle airline business. Passengers do not believe in this aviation. Luck of trust, fear to be treated badly and few other reasons will always bother dominican skies.

This country has no professionals who are able to administrate airlines, people are interested in politic demonstration in the street, many can't read, majority has no idea how to find Switzerland or France on the map, so who will trust to dominican airlines? All they need is image, and 10 USD difference is nothing compared to secure and comfortable CO's 777.

Passengers are enrolled to Frequent Miles programmes, they will never change their carriers, maybe those who read this forum will use a new airline to pay 25 USD less, but 90% of passengers will not! And since the majority of non-dominican passengers will never board dominican airline, this is the result!

It is time to become a serious country!

I hope you actually know and realize what you are saying......

[Dolores]

My two cents as a passenger... give me Continental to NY/NWK over AA to New York/JFK any day. Boarding AA is like boarding a guagua to Villa Altagracia, boarding Continental is like taking the Metro to Puerto Plata. Of course, miles is something to consider. But personally, if the price is about the same, I have chosen Continental over AA.