Jetstar has announced it will start a daily, one-stop service between Singapore and Melbourne. Jetstar is also planning to establish an Asian hub for its planned long-haul operations between Australia and Europe, the company's chief executive Alan Joyce said on the sidelines of an aviation conference in Singapore on Wednesday. "We are focused on developing it through one hub initially," Joyce said. "We hope that there will be multiple daily services by the time this is finished." The airline was deciding which of five Asian cities - Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City or Kuala Lumpur - it will use as a transit point, Joyce said. Joyce also said Jetstar's deliberations on its expansion into Europe have been slowed by the recently announced delays in the delivery of Boeing's new 787 plane. Jetstar - a low-cost subsidiary of Qantas Airways - was looking at flying to Athens and Rome in Europe, Joyce said, but was considering other factors as well in choosing destinations. "We haven't made a decision on that, because economic conditions could change a lot in the next year," he said. "Then we have to make a judgment call depending on which markets look like they have the potential when we get closer to it. "And unfortunately, with the 787 delays, it just pushed that decision back by a few months," he said. Jetstar now doesn't expect to get its first 787 until May 2009 - delayed from August this year - so services to Europe aren't likely to start until late next year or early 2010. US plane manufacturer Boeing Co last week said the inaugural flight of the 787 will be delayed up to another three months, pushing delivery of the first plane into early 2009 - the third time the plane has been delayed. Joyce said Jetstar was also interested in flying between Australia and northeast Asian cities in Taiwan and South Korea, and to North American destinations in Canada and the US West Coast. On the new Singapore-Melbourne route, which stops in Darwin, Joyce said Jetstar planned to start flights on April 17 - pending regulatory approval. The new service is in addition to an existing daily flight that Jetstar operates between Singapore and Darwin. The airline is offering promotional fares of 88 Singapore dollars ($A70) for a one-way ticket on the new service.
Hopefully to compete with Tiger on the same run and not to replace the QF9
I would say 'yes' and 'no'. It is however so typical of Qantas's short-sighted planning. The real opposition - SIA - is I think up to three dailies Melbourne/Singapore as opposed to one from Qantas. Instead of giving A330s to Jetstar, they should have stayed with mainline and been used for build frequency on routes such as Melbourne/Singapore to take on the real opposition. Jet* is no competitor for SIA nor any other carrier operating the sector, aside from the Darwin stop-over in slower A320s. It's surely just a matter of time before we see Bogan Air operating Adelaide and Brisbane to Darwin to hub with the Singapore flight/s. Qantas lacks frequency and capacity from each of these cities to Singapore (and elsewhere) when you compare what the opposition is doing.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, Qantas is being intentionally allowed to decline as a competitive entity, one reason being its obsessive focus on domestic matters.
Well, hopefully jetstar will fly the route efficiently!
Watched this afternoon as a J* A330 climbed "slowly" into the distance to the south of cronulla beach (departure 16R SYD) with the gear extended. (time 3:05pm)
Hmmmm....I'd be guessing that they'd figure out that Yield X Load = Total Revenue and getting on with running a successful airline...taking care to leave your opinions behind. Yield alone never saved anyone.
Bought a ticket for dear old mum to SIN and back the other day. SIA $ 1056 EK $ 1300 odd QF $ 1500 odd Thought I would checK J* to KL and then a low cost to SIN. Forgive me if I am wrong but, I think J* was $2100 return to KL!!!!
Well, hopefully jetstar will fly the route efficiently!
Watched this afternoon as a J* A330 climbed "slowly" into the distance to the south of cronulla beach (departure 16R SYD) with the gear extended. (time 3:05pm)
Damn the performance was sluggish today !!
The implication that could be drawn from MSTR Cautions observation is that the crew somehow forgot to retract the gear in a timely manner.
A more likely scenario is that one or more wheel brakes where deactivated thereby requiring (as per the MEL) the landing gear to remain extended for two mins after takeoff.
Cant be true.... because our illustrious leadership swore black and blue that J* will only service leisure routes that where unprofitable for the red rat to service and would never compete with QF on its premium routes. QF must be losing money on the sin route ..... gee, onyone tried to get a seat in or out of sin lately????
So, either (1) management lies like a 2 bob watch from marakesh, or (2) J* to singapore is bull shyt?
Well JQ aren't competing. Can you really say that it's competing on the same route as a MEL-SIN direct service? MEL-DRW-SIN, on an A320 with the need to get off and clear immigration - Really?
C'mon, Qantas are going to keep on creaming the higher yield passengers and there are going to be some punters who are going to take the inconvenient option. This is all about competing with Tiger which JQ do better than QF.
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