Hamo - no offence was intended and none was taken mate.
It is quite simple. The required and most attractive times for flights has not changed over the last 30 years.
The early flights ex Tas feeding into the mainalnd market, which in turn become holiday market time slots ex Sydney and on Northwards. The reverse is also true with southbound timings.
Originating early ex MEL and SYD are there to serve the business market and their oncarriage serves the leisure market from downline ports.
The highest yield is the originating flights and the RON aeroplanes. The icing on the cake is the oncarriage - normally 25% or more on the business hours flights. It just seals the deal.
The plan was right at the time, and worked well. It would still work brilliantly now, with a little "flying around the edges" of the incumbents. It aint that hard, particularly with one of them alienating most of their clients with Eurocrap service.
If you are interested, you can call me at any time on 0419 323989 or business hours ( Tas time) 1800 067207.
I did have a hand in EW scheduling and in cohorts with Nifty Nev Maguire was responsible for the HBA DPO SYD OOL BNE CNS EW74/75 service. Only asked for an F27 once a week - and wound up with a daily and sometimes twice daily F28 service.
Best regards
EWL
Ron
Having read further, (my apologies) on the full service side of things, punters are flying into DPO on QFlink rather than fly the cattle truck to LST in their droves. There are so many disgruntled psgrs out there it is scary. They will hit DPO and drive rather than fly Jetstar, simply to be treated as a human. Start there sales run from here.
The Eurocrap theory is suited to intending Firefly Bus passengers and the human detrius we load onto the Melbourne bound Spirits of Tasmania. there are a great number of well heeled prospective passengers out there that mourn the loss of Ansett and East West who would be only too happy to throw their hats in the ring and embrace a new airline. All Y class is fine - just full service. It is not expensive to deliver good munchies.
We need to take Australian domestic aviation back to what the punters want, at a decent but not ridiculously low or high price.
It aint that hard.
Best
EWL
Last edited by Eastwest Loco; 27th Sep 2004 at 11:14.