Originally Posted by
neville_nobody
A real hard-core low cost airline won't work here as there are no secondary airports. The airports in Australia will just eat your competitive edge and hand it to QF. Whoever the second player is in the future will have to be some sort of full service carrier with all the trimmings.
Who said low cost ? Breeze is apparently going to be 2 or 4 class depending on how you look at it.
Neeleman seems to love tech as long as it works properly & save airline money.
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"Breeze business model
Breeze professes that it wants to offer a low cost product - but says it also plans to offer a first class product; so it will not be operating a true low cost carrier (LCC) model.
The proposals do include some LCC features (such as a point-to-point route network, extra fees for additional services, and (originally) a single class of aircraft), but it will not have a single class of cabin (those paying higher fares are promised a 2-2 seat configuration and more legroom) and indeed Breeze says it will charge for "what’s effectively four classes of service, starting with an ultra-low-fare product, from which you can buy your way up the ladder... ". Aircraft will not feature seatback in flight entertainment; instead entertainment will be streamed through the airline's app, which will also be used to purchase flights and upgrades.=10.8333px"
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Jetblue hardly low cost in traditional sense. TAP Portugal not low cost as we think of it.
He has plenty of experience in all areas.
So all he has to do, is have a decent frequency on the golden triangle (more than JQ, which will never ever have high frequency on the triangle) & be cheaper than QF. Many are looking at cheaper everything at present as recession bites. Not hard to be better than QF & if you've got a cost advantage, you can throw things around like all sorts of freebees. TAP is also a member of star alliance.
Nothing to say new airline couldn't have small lounges at BNE, SYD, MEL.