One effect of the scarcity of slots has been for airlines to increase frequency to the most profitable destinations, at the expense of a diversity of destinations.
Crossair, whose operating costs are significantly lower than Swissair's, is expected to keep operating Swissair flights to the most profitable destinations, and to continue Swissair's recent strategy of concentrating on high-fare European passenger traffic rather than the mass market.
It is a major financial event, a reminder to Macau, the tiny gambling island that is now the world's most profitable gambling destination, that there still some fresh life in the desert beast.
Zynga has also been moving off Facebook with its own portal, and then there are plenty of independent, venture-backed companies that have had standalone and profitable gaming destinations for a very long time like Sweden's King.com and Seattle's Big Fish Games.
The results of a massive study of taxi drivers in Beijing support that suspicion: Avoiding certain passengers based on their destination is profitable.
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Focusing on the redevelopment of Fulton Street Mall, for decades a popular and profitable Caribbean and African-American shopping destination, Ms. Anderson traces a tale of aggressive rezoning, multimillion-dollar development deals and racial displacement.
Early residents soon realized that tourism was destined to be more profitable than mining, and by the turn of the 20th century the Grand Canyon was a well-known tourist destination.
Routine maintenance work causes continual delays.Not only connectBooz Allen observes that connecting traffic is much less profitable than what the industry calls "origin-destination" (OD) traffic, which is passengers simply going from A to B. Its analysis of America's domestic market suggests that OD traffic is 1.6 to 2 times more profitable.
