Virgin Blue to Karratha with the E-jet next year
Howdy,
Just watching the news as usual and they are reporting that Virgin Blue wants to fly to Karratha with the E-jet as it would be one of the most sustainable routes in regional WA.
It's funny though, first Ozjet announcing they want to fly to Karratha, then Skywest and now Virgin Blue.
Obviously they cant all be accomodated so it will be interesting to see what develops.
At the moment work is going to be starting to redevelop the airport which includes the runway being extended and fattend up. Apparntley they are going to be finishing the taxiways that dont link to the runway at the moment, they are half finished and being used as chopper runways.
Also heard through the grapevine that one of the main reasons that the runway was being done was because the companys wanted to be able to charter 767 sized aircraft from major cities and even asian countrys to bring in contractors etc when major projects were going to be occuring.
Now whens Tiger going to be announcing they want Karratha as well??
But the big question will be who will win, it may be sustainable for 3 airlines but not 4 unless one other had a major major contract.