Originally Posted by
Ollie Onion
The business plan was always madness, you can’t put a high density Jet in thin routes like that at a low cost point.
Maybe the E-190 or similar might have worked. I have no knowledge of how this business plan was developed for Australian operations, but one suspects that with 777 Partners, as both airline owner and initial lessor, there was little choice of aircraft involved as they had many 737 Max 8 aircraft on order. That is an inherent conflict. Perhaps somebody with real knowledge of the situation will soon be able to deny or confirm my armchair speculation. But 186 seats on routes such as Mildura to Sunshine Coast or Toowoomba to Townsville is extremely ambitious.