Interesting Gas Chamber, as dodgy said about 5 months to get Oz registered a/c into another oz registered operator, 1 a/c initially, with skeleton crews on 1 route, manuals already in circulation from existing oz operator and all that with a truckload of help from said oz operators flight and ground staff.......but Skywest will do it in 2 months with foreign a/c from a foreign operator with ( i assume ) foreign crews, since an A320 rating for a skywest pilot from wo to go is 3 to 3 1/2 months.
Icarus, yep PBO or NWN or BWI, no probs, just need to have a litle thing called a contract, can't operate into any of those without one. Ansett tried after they lost the contract to Q/Link and were told in no uncertain terms to PO.
Am a bit confused about the article stating that November to April is peak season....the wet (north ) used to be the off season, oh well, thats global warming for ya.