Bavarian Airlines! Bavarian... What???

This week a "new airline" was announced: Bavarian Airlines, to be based in Munich. According to founder Adem Karagöz the airline wants to offer better service than their competitor(s). Looking at the routes the new airline wants to start with (MUC to FRA, BER, DUS, AMS) there is almost only LH and their affiliates (KLM as well in case of AMS) the compete with.

For LH and KLM these flights are important as feeder flights for their longhaul routes from MUC, FRA and AMS and these will fly with LH and KLM anyway. So Bavarian Airlines could only shoot for business travelers which want to go from MUC to FRA, BER etc. for a day-trip and for leisure traveler. Not too much to gain here I think.

But there is another doubt I have: the airlines wants to fly with leased E195E2, getting their first of planned twelve plane(s) this year. Now I tell you something: there is no chance Bavarian Airlines will get a E195E2 this year unless other customers jump from Embraers customer list! I even doubt that Embraer will fulfill their delivery commitments they gave to their existing customers (Porter for example wants to have their full first batch of 30 aircraft until the end of this year.

So for now I take Bavarian Airlines as a very early April fools joke!

And I can only wonder why there are so many press articles out there (especially in the german press) which are reporting the airlines and their CEO's plans without any critical question!