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BNEA320
agree with above, but not ANZ. JQ for leisure market, but if Rex has lower costs, they could do an Air NZ & be both full service & low cost.
Don't know why Rex would want to go outside of golden triangle Mon-Fri peak hour, except maybe to PER & then ADL after golden triangle bedded down & they then need more aircraft.
To do triangle & to make money need frequency in peak hour Mon-Fri. Aircraft could do other flights during middle of the day, on Saturdays & Sunday am, but as Neeleman said recently re breeze, if the aircraft are incredibly cheap, don't need to fly them hard. Allegiant bought their initial MD80s for about USD$1m apparently, spent SFA on them & parked them at quiet times of week rather than try & give away seats. (they did fly a lot of flying for the vegas casinos who think subsidised the flights into Vegas from 1 horse towns, no one had ever heard of, so the casinos "trapped" punters at Vegas for a week, as only 1 flight a week) Cheap flight, cheap hotel & made big dollars out of casino.
Based on the conversations that the NZ unions and CEO have had over live streams and emails...
I think you might be in for a surprise if you think AirNZ won’t push out into Australia, in a situation where there is demand in the AU market and NZ has surplus aircraft and staff.
They currently operate to eight destinations and have lounge agreements, ground agents and service contracts in SYD MEL BNE OOL MCY CNS ADL PER....