Triangle Flights

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1

Does anyone know if one can operate triangle flights?

For example, I want to fly A-B-C-A and carry passengers from A-B, A-C via B, B-A via C, and C-A. I know traffic rights may not allow me to transport new passengers between B-C.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks.

2

sure, you can do that as long as you have traffic rights in respectively between the countries. so if you’re a EU based airline and you want to fly Berlin - Paris - Madrid - Berlin, that would work just fine for all direct and connecting passengers

3

Thanks. But can I do, for example, a flight Manila - Sydney - Melbourne - Manila and sell the following tickets:

Manila - Sydney

Manila - Melbourne via Sydney

Sydney - Manila via Melbourne

and

Melbourne - Manila

I know I cannot transport local passengers between Sydney and Melbourne.

???

4

I think I’ve heard from some fellow airline owners that this type of business model is possible. So for instance if you have a uk based airline and offer the three flight routes LHR-SIN-SYD, LGW-SIN-AKL and MAN-SIN. Then passenger traveliing from the uk onward to australia could change in SIN . So someone could fly from MAN to AKL via SIN. However you are not allowed to carry passengers flying only on the second leg (SIN-SYD, SIN-AKL) since you dont have the traffic rights there.

5

this is correct. the passengers originating in your home country can connect to the second leg, but no new pax can board it.

and since you will lose a few passangers, that just wanted to go to city B, the connecting flight to city C might not be generating any profits. but that is something you have to try. if you bring in enough pax to city B, you might be able to fill up a flight to C

6

Okay, is this possible?

I create two flights:

  1. MNL-SYD-MEL

  2. MEL-MNL

Can passengers board the SYD-MEL flight and connect onto the MEL-MNL flight?

7

Legally yes. Technically, I don’t know how well this connection will be rated by the ORS. But it is definately possible.

8

As others have said, you can certainly do it, and if your price service levels are good enough passengers will book it, however I would recommend either non daily alternating flights to SYD and MEL or signing a code share agreement with an airline flying SYD-MEL.