Ferris,
What sort of dinosaur thinking is that? Just a total head-in-the-sand attitude to the changing business environment they operate in!! God help us if this is the best that multi-million dollar salaries generates.
mate welcome to observing c.21 airline management...
Halas,
Agreed that Jetstar will probably be sent up on various European routes - that's been part of the plan for a while I think. However, unless there is a maaaaassive expansion in the number of L/H airframes, the sort of coverage and convenience the punter can get with the existing M.E carriers cannot happen. Hence I suspect it won't be so much a 'hubbing' exercise anywhere, as much as point-to-point via a tech stop situation.
1. Jetstar is a low/no-service carrier. Not being narky; that's just the model. So just as Aer Lingus had to leave oneworld when it lowered its service standard model, so no full-service carrier will link to it via a hub. Hence it will be on its own on those runs (other than the parent code-sharing on it).
2. So unless it buys many airframes, it's not going to be able to cover all the European ports we've been discussing here with any sort of regularity. So again, unattractive for anyone else to work with.