onehitwonder
26th Nov 2014, 05:39
I fail to understand why its taken this long and they've kept chartering Alliance on the east coast
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Qantas plans to use Fokker 100 aircraft from its Network Aviation subsidiary to operate scheduled flights in Western Australia under the QantasLink brand.
The move will result in QantasLink ending all turboprop operations from its Perth hub and is part of a broader change to the network that will result in four Bombardier Q300 aircraft leaving the fleet and schedule changes in a number of markets.
QantasLink head of airports Todd Chapman said Network’s Air Operator’s Certificate had now been amended to allow it to operate regular public transport (RPT) flights with its 12 100-seat Fokker 100s.
“We are starting to use those aircraft as QF-coded flight numbers on formal RPT routes,” Chapman told delegates at the Australian Airports Association national conference on the Gold Coast on Wednesday.
“It is a real symbol of the diversity that QantasLink now has in order to meet not just right aircraft, right route, but we can also tackle different markets with the different fleet choices that we have depending if they are RPT or charter.”
With the end of turboprop operations at Perth, QantasLink flights from the West Australian capital would use either Boeing 717s or Network-opeated Fokker 100s.
Qantas acquired Network, which runs charter and fly-in/fly-out services, in February 2011.
Chapman noted QantasLink’s fleet comprising 49 Bombardier turboprops and 18 Boeing 717s, flew 10 per cent more flights per day than Qantas mainline domestic and carried 20 per cent more passengers than Qantas’s international operations.
Moreover, 33 per cent of passengers travelling on QantasLink flights were connecting onto a Qantas domestic or international flight, which Chapman said highlighted the importance of on-time performance (OTP) for the regional carrier.
To help airports with keeping QantasLink’s flights on schedule, the airline publishes weekly charts ranking each airport in terms of aircraft turnaround time in a bid to motivate airports to do better.
“We can actually see a dent in our yield in the subsequent weeks after we have a bad week of on-time performance because the market softens, they lose confidence and they are not prepared to pay as much for their ticket,” Chapman said.
“OTP is critical for us as a business and airports assisting us on that is invaluable.
“We are just wanting good turnaround performance as a core skill from our airports. We don’t want them to rush. We just want them to do it safely within the allotted turn time.”
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Qantas plans to use Fokker 100 aircraft from its Network Aviation subsidiary to operate scheduled flights in Western Australia under the QantasLink brand.
The move will result in QantasLink ending all turboprop operations from its Perth hub and is part of a broader change to the network that will result in four Bombardier Q300 aircraft leaving the fleet and schedule changes in a number of markets.
QantasLink head of airports Todd Chapman said Network’s Air Operator’s Certificate had now been amended to allow it to operate regular public transport (RPT) flights with its 12 100-seat Fokker 100s.
“We are starting to use those aircraft as QF-coded flight numbers on formal RPT routes,” Chapman told delegates at the Australian Airports Association national conference on the Gold Coast on Wednesday.
“It is a real symbol of the diversity that QantasLink now has in order to meet not just right aircraft, right route, but we can also tackle different markets with the different fleet choices that we have depending if they are RPT or charter.”
With the end of turboprop operations at Perth, QantasLink flights from the West Australian capital would use either Boeing 717s or Network-opeated Fokker 100s.
Qantas acquired Network, which runs charter and fly-in/fly-out services, in February 2011.
Chapman noted QantasLink’s fleet comprising 49 Bombardier turboprops and 18 Boeing 717s, flew 10 per cent more flights per day than Qantas mainline domestic and carried 20 per cent more passengers than Qantas’s international operations.
Moreover, 33 per cent of passengers travelling on QantasLink flights were connecting onto a Qantas domestic or international flight, which Chapman said highlighted the importance of on-time performance (OTP) for the regional carrier.
To help airports with keeping QantasLink’s flights on schedule, the airline publishes weekly charts ranking each airport in terms of aircraft turnaround time in a bid to motivate airports to do better.
“We can actually see a dent in our yield in the subsequent weeks after we have a bad week of on-time performance because the market softens, they lose confidence and they are not prepared to pay as much for their ticket,” Chapman said.
“OTP is critical for us as a business and airports assisting us on that is invaluable.
“We are just wanting good turnaround performance as a core skill from our airports. We don’t want them to rush. We just want them to do it safely within the allotted turn time.”