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Old 10th Sep 2008, 12:05
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Eastwest Loco
 
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Not a bad "look at" for DJ - the Island of the Gods.

The place is vastly under capacity and Garuda has chucked everything it can at Australia with its A330s, but is still under capacity to hell.

They simply do not have the bucks top buy the birds to service the market.

JQ is frowned on by most of our passengers who prefer to get a Bintang (dingin sekalih) delivered for free along with free edible tucker.

I personally do not think that a new carrier, albeit a fluffy wuffy fun one, offering a buy everything you want service on DPS will cut the mustard, particularly on a run where Garuda is very kind on sporting equipment such as surfboards.

All DJ will do is dilute the JQ passenger revenue IMHO.

A BNE DPS nonstop may be the only logical run, as it is not covered unless over SYD and would attract some of the budget concious younger traffic from MCY to OOL.

Just my 2 bobs worth.

Best all

EWL
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