Interesting statistics reported in today's Airline Transport World . . . apart from the severe yield drop, I didn’t realise that JetStar domestic carries nearly half the number of passengers of Qantas domestic – and the gap is closing!
Qantas suffered one of its worst-ever collapses in yield on international flights in March, according to a Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation analysis. QF's international yield plunged 11% year-over-year in March following a 2.4% fall in February. CAPA said yesterday that March domestic yield dropped 10.1% after falling 9.7% the prior month. March international passenger numbers were down 15.8% and domestic numbers declined 2.6% to 1.4 million. Low-cost subsidiary Jetstar Airways saw international passengers rise 36.3% to 186,000 and domestic increase 1.8% to 686,000. Overall, group passenger numbers decreased 2.7% to 3.2 million on a 6.4% fall in RPKs to 8.11 billion. Capacity dipped 4% to 10.3 billion ASKs, lowering load factor 2 points to 78.3%.