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  • How Can Luxair Be Larger Than Arik Air?

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    Maarten Van Den Driessche
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    How Can Luxair Be Larger Than Arik Air? At first glance, it sounds impossible. How could Luxair, the national airline of Luxembourg, a country with a population of just around 680,000 people, operate a larger fleet than Arik Air, one of Nigeria‘s best-known airlines, serving a country of more than 242 million people? Yet that’s…

  • Why Direct Flights Are Usually More Expensive

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    Maarten Van Den Driessche
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    You’ve probably seen it before while searching for flights. A direct flight costs €900.The exact same route with a six-hour layover somewhere costs €550. Even stranger: sometimes the connecting flight is physically much longer. More fuel, more airports, more flying — yet somehow cheaper. It feels backwards, but airline pricing has never really been about…