Jetstar considers international flights
ABC News Online
Jetstar considers international flights
Wednesday, 1 September 2004
The chief executive officer of Jetstar has raised the prospect of expanding the low-cost airline to international routes over the next few years.
Jetstar CEO Alan Joyce has told a Melbourne business lunch that the airline, a subsidiary of Qantas, is about to carry its one-millionth customer.
He says it has managed to raise passenger traffic on particular routes by up to 91 per cent compared to the national carrier's figures at the same time last year.
Mr Joyce says while Jetstar will consider a move onto short international routes, it is concentrating on expanding its domestic operations.
"We have a lot of expansion in Australia before we can start considering international," he said.
"I'd say our focus now is on places like Adelaide, the Northern Territory, Western Australia and there's still places in Queensland that we still can operate into, so there's a lot of more expansion before we get there."
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