This article is a lot of twaddle as the takeover of Sin/Darwin/Cairns by the Australian branch will do nothing to change things except drive up the cost as surely the costs at Jetstar Asia are lower than the Australian version?
Jetstar will increase the number of flights on the route from five a week to a daily service and will use an additional A320 Airbus to the one already used by its Asian-based sister company.
The extra plane will help it to provide a daily Cairns-Darwin return service as well as the extra onward leg to Singapore.
They already operate between Darwin and Cairns so what else is new? Will they be operating an extra service of a morning instead of sitting the aircraft on the ground at Cairns? Additional capacity may allow them to sell Darwin/Cairns as capacity will be increased which will help eliminate the need to protect seats between these two cities for the long-haul punters.
Just as importantly, it will allow Jetstar to match Tiger's planned service out of Melbourne and through to Asia without the need of involving another, albeit co-owned, airline.
Garbage. The existing Darwin to Singapore is already branded as "JQ" so what additional fracilities will the change bring?
A Jetstar spokeswoman said upgrading the service out of Cairns was part of a long-term plan which predated Tiger's decision to set up in Australia.
More garbage, or is the Jetstar spinner saying that the Jetstar Asia offering is a bigger load of **** than that offered by Jetstar Australia even though Jetstar Asia operate the flight to the specifications of Jetstar Australia? After all it is currently a wet lease operation.
When will the media start to look at corporate media releases critically instead of just repeating them verbatim and thus mislead the poublic, albeit unintentionally? One day the crap that is turned out by Jetstar will embarrass and bite someone of the backside big-time.