Rockhampton Airport said they carried 100,000 passengers in the first year on Bonza.
Doing the math, they had around 170,000 seats into Rockhampton.
Newcastle has claimed they had 65,000 Bonza passengers in and out of its airport.
They had around 102,000 seats into Newcastle.
What is clear, is this sort of operation would work well with a 120-130 seater.
They said breakeven is at 90%. Trying to penetrate a further 30% into some of these markets in order to make a dollar, is a big ask. I just don’t think the regions can produce such traffic.
This model is likely about 50 years too early, the regions just need to fatten out a bit more before they can hit such numbers.