airline seats being dumped en masse ?
it appears that the public aren't buying airline seats in any great number to anywhere at the moment.
Air Asia last week was doing $67 one way from Australia to ports beyond KUL like Langkawi, Penang etc. ($67 is basically the taxes)
Scoot dumping seats to SIN from $139 (OOL/SIN) in school holidays.
Even trans-tasman is being dumped.
eg. BNE/DUD/BNE in ski season for $330 return. (add $50 for checked baggage)
+ $1000 return fares to Europe.
All of these prices include taxes & charges.
& yes, for some of these deals there maybe only a dozen seats per flight, but it's not good to be continually selling loss leaders as public then thinks this is the benchmark & won't book until fares approach these sort of levels.
Talking to a few travel agents, they say they are doing lots of costings, but very few people are paying or in the case of a package, putting down a deposit. They both said that many people are waiting til it gets cheaper to book/pay.
Any cheaper & airlines will be closing down.