why can some airlines stop over a country and then continue on another country? Wouldn’t the airline “steal” a share of the passengers from the host country?
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example: KLM goes from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and then it continues to Jakarta.
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Today we are capable of running long haul flights on routes like the UK to Australia with only a couple of stops for refueling thanks to planes like the Airbus A380 and Boeing 777, but this hasn’t always been the case, with older flights requiring many more stops on the way.
As such, limiting flights to only the local airline would price to be a complete nightmare, needing multiple airlines to complete a single route that you would need to switch between. The alternative was for the airlines to make various agreements allowing a carriers plane to use a foreign airport as a stop on certain routes – paying for access to the airports facilities and fuel as appropriate.
This won’t mean British Airways will be allowed to operate short haul Asian flights out of Changi airport in Singapore for example, as the local flights will still typically be limited to the local carriers, but they will be able to use it as a stop on a longer route.
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