Anyone noticed Jetstar has reduced SIN-AKL from daily to 5 weekly and now 4 weekly till the end of November?
SQ is 12x weekly to AKL and 5x weekly for the Northern Winter schedule and double daily into AKL and daily to CHC.
The dumb thing is you can't book AKL-SIN-FRA or AKL-SIN-LHR from the QF or JQ sites.
And with SQ starting SCOOT with the 777s with a capacity of 410 in a 3-4-3 config with INFLIGHT INTERNET, They can send Scoot on any potential 3K longhaul route and dump capacity to kill them.
Clap Clap Alan Joyce for revealing your plans years in advance. SQ is not going to the press every other day to reveal their plans for SCOOT.
In the rights alloction for Haneda Airport, 14 slots were given to Singapore carriers. The different carriers must put forward a business case to CAAS as to why they should be allocated the rights, and how doing so facilitates the growth of air traffic through Singapore.
Why was Jetstar not awarded the rights? Because Haneda a good airport for connections to other domestic points. SIA could argue that they would give seamless connections for their pax via Haneda to numerous Japanese cities. Jetstar as an LCC was unable to argue this as they largely sell point to point, and certainly do not have any partner at Haneda to transfer connecting pax to.
There is currently an unused daily slot into Narita which is not used by any Singaporean carrier. Jetstar has not taken up that slot.
Now, Scoot's 777s will have a capacity of 410. Jetstar's A330s have a capacity of 303. In the business case to CAAS as to which carrier should be allocated the rights, Scoot can very easily say that they can carry 33% more pax than Jetstar can, and put a very strong case forward as to why they deserve the rights.
Perhaps Jetstar can argue that they have the feed via SIN from the QF Group, whereas Scoot will be managed independently from SQ and SQ will not feed pax into Scoot and vv.
However after 7 years of watching 3K grow out of SIN, SQ is not going to take their expansion lying down. And why should they?
On another note, SQ is also quietly going 24 weekly to PER (14 for QF) and 10 weekly to ADL (3 for QF) and 24 weekly to BNE (7 for QF) for the Australian summer.