Oz Jet to Karratha by October
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Whoops should have said the Heli runway which was to be comissioned as a taxiway also but whats the bet that will never come to fruition. But apparntley runway works are starting after the west season has been and gone.
Also rumour i heard, main reason for this is because QF is limited to 106 passengers on direct KTA-BNE flights in Summer because they wont be getting in the air otherwise! This would also help in securing more direct services to not just BNE and Woodside and Rio are lobbying QF for more direct routes, Woodside in particular who would like to see Melbourne linked which is another location where they have investments and offices.
Also rumour i heard, main reason for this is because QF is limited to 106 passengers on direct KTA-BNE flights in Summer because they wont be getting in the air otherwise! This would also help in securing more direct services to not just BNE and Woodside and Rio are lobbying QF for more direct routes, Woodside in particular who would like to see Melbourne linked which is another location where they have investments and offices.
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Icarus2001, yeah mate the strip has been upgraded already. It reopens on Friday. It's over 2km long, has papi and runway lights.
kimberleyEx, it ain't that way now. Think you're exaggerating your memory of the minties a little.
kimberleyEx, it ain't that way now. Think you're exaggerating your memory of the minties a little.
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Glad there is an imporvement there. Mate that was no exaggeration! Anyway all the best to the guys and gals that are presently at Network.
It is unfortunate though, that it took the departure of so many pilots for there to be an improvement.
Cheers
Glad there is an imporvement there. Mate that was no exaggeration! Anyway all the best to the guys and gals that are presently at Network.
It is unfortunate though, that it took the departure of so many pilots for there to be an improvement.
Cheers
No sign of KTA being any longer when I was last up there. Which was only a few weeks ago. No notams about it being any longer. PAPI it has and RWY lights too but still 1850m long, though the RWY might be a little lower after my last landing there 
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No sign of KTA being any longer when I was last up there. Which was only a few weeks ago. No notams about it being any longer. PAPI it has and RWY lights too but still 1850m long
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Pilotdude will be happy. 
Media Release 2008-05-14 (3)
Skywest Announces Resumption of Karratha Services
Skywest announced today that subject to State Government approval, it was resuming services to Karratha twice per week with effect 27th May 2008. The two services will operate on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings departing Perth at 0530 in the morning and returning from Karratha at 0800.
Skywest’s Chief Executive Officer, Paul Daff, said “Skywest is resuming services to Karratha on the back of strong support from a resource company. The services will provide much needed capacity and competition onto Western Australia’s busiest regional service”.
“We hope to continue to grow these services over time and expand in conjunction with the support of our mining partner and the people of Karratha”, Mr Daff said.
Both services will be operated by 100-seater Fokker 100 jet aircraft.
“As with all of Skywest’s Fokker flights, the Karratha service will offer a quality economy class product of meals, in-flight bar and the most spacious economy legroom of any Western Australian airline,” Mr Daff said.
Karratha to Perth fares with Skywest start from $249 one way including taxes.
END OF MEDIA RELEASE
Media Release 2008-05-14 (3)
Skywest Announces Resumption of Karratha Services
Skywest announced today that subject to State Government approval, it was resuming services to Karratha twice per week with effect 27th May 2008. The two services will operate on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings departing Perth at 0530 in the morning and returning from Karratha at 0800.
Skywest’s Chief Executive Officer, Paul Daff, said “Skywest is resuming services to Karratha on the back of strong support from a resource company. The services will provide much needed capacity and competition onto Western Australia’s busiest regional service”.
“We hope to continue to grow these services over time and expand in conjunction with the support of our mining partner and the people of Karratha”, Mr Daff said.
Both services will be operated by 100-seater Fokker 100 jet aircraft.
“As with all of Skywest’s Fokker flights, the Karratha service will offer a quality economy class product of meals, in-flight bar and the most spacious economy legroom of any Western Australian airline,” Mr Daff said.
Karratha to Perth fares with Skywest start from $249 one way including taxes.
END OF MEDIA RELEASE
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Yeah its good news!
Just booked flights for days that XR operate with Qantas for a nice $750 the other day!
Ahwell next trip to Perth i might try to go XR but their days arent exactly convenient.
Hopefully this town actually figures out that if they want to keep something they have to support it.
But i know who this "Resource company" is, but i cant understand the secrecy??? their staff are going to be flying in their frigging uniforms. Anyway im sure they will say something about it soon. But then again what i've been told could be completely wrong!
Another thing thats going to be interesting is when the development at cape Preston starts, something like 6000 construction workers! Majority will be FIFO should be starting next year so hopefully Skywest would pick that contract up too.
Also theres a nickel mine being looked at south of K-town as well another couple thousand construction workers, once again FIFO.
So if XR can get either of those contracts they will be more than sweet.
Then theres all the little contracts as well.
Hell while im at it i'll let you all know whats happening at our airport:
Work started about a month or so ago on taxiway upgrades and runway upgrades. At the moment they have been Taxiway Bravo and Taxiway Foxtrot, the reconstruction should be finished in the next couple weeks. Think they are doing 7 stages. No idea what's next though as EDI Downer is pretty quiet on that front.
Just booked flights for days that XR operate with Qantas for a nice $750 the other day!
Ahwell next trip to Perth i might try to go XR but their days arent exactly convenient.
Hopefully this town actually figures out that if they want to keep something they have to support it.
But i know who this "Resource company" is, but i cant understand the secrecy??? their staff are going to be flying in their frigging uniforms. Anyway im sure they will say something about it soon. But then again what i've been told could be completely wrong!
Another thing thats going to be interesting is when the development at cape Preston starts, something like 6000 construction workers! Majority will be FIFO should be starting next year so hopefully Skywest would pick that contract up too.
Also theres a nickel mine being looked at south of K-town as well another couple thousand construction workers, once again FIFO.
So if XR can get either of those contracts they will be more than sweet.
Then theres all the little contracts as well.
Hell while im at it i'll let you all know whats happening at our airport:
Work started about a month or so ago on taxiway upgrades and runway upgrades. At the moment they have been Taxiway Bravo and Taxiway Foxtrot, the reconstruction should be finished in the next couple weeks. Think they are doing 7 stages. No idea what's next though as EDI Downer is pretty quiet on that front.
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Hopefully this town actually figures out that if they want to keep something they have to support it.
QF pulled out of PD and probably where not far from pulling KA when AN went belly up.
Alot of those Northern WA'ers deserve what they get
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Alot of those Northern WA'ers deserve what they get
We are finally getting some services back to town, some have already tried and failed and some are starting up. It's amazing how many places have tried and failed here a classic example is a butchers we only have woolies and coles, everyone rants and raves about the prices/quality yet when there was a butchers here he didnt do well enough and basically got driven out of town and several people have expressed interest in running one yet no one would support it or back it!
Anyway thats my rant for the day! they expect but don't support
