Originally Posted by
PoppaJo
What about this morning Mick? Time to update the market on the declining performance?
These slots would be better off given to Bonza.
Well, Tuesdays and Wednesdays are my preferred days to fly for good reason; generally the lightest loads of the week.
That said, Rex's first flights of the day are much lighter than the competition. ZL9 SYD-MEL left with around 55 pax and ZL18 coming the other way was carrying 70 pax. For comparison, VA (which operated three flights in the 20 minutes or so either side of the Rex flights) averaged 103 and 113 pax respectively.
And this time last year, the same Rex flights for the first Tuesday in September were carrying 102 and 153 pax respectively.
Stepping back a bit, yesterday was Rex's second worst day since late July; about 1,080 pax SYD-MEL-SYD spread over 14 flights, about 2,690 on 28 flights on the triangle, and just under 4,100 pax on 42 flights for the domestic jet network.
That capped off their worst week in the past six weeks; 29,975 network pax over 278 flights.
People can dress it up anyway they like but there appears to be something definitely wrong with Rex's domestic jet operations patronage. At best, they don't appear to have grown their customer base over the past twelve months, and they are now just atomising that base over an increasing number of flights.
Who knows though, maybe last week was an aberration and things are on the improve. Doubtless Rex will let us know as soon as there's even a glimmer of things turning around.