Jetstar customer guarantee
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Australia
Age: 74
Posts: 221
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
GA Trojan et al
The whole point is that the Qantas Group can operate a legacy carrier AND an LCC as a group cheaper than could two other entities separately. That's where it's strengths lie.
JQ actually helps support QF yields by ensuring there's a "home" within the Group for low yield traffic and second, ensures that on routes where there is only low yield traffic there's a lower cost base to ensure the Group's losses are minimized.
I am not necessarily a supporter of everything JQ and QF do and have done....and the future will be as different from today is from the past...but on this one issue, to the benefit of all QF Group employees, they have got it fairly right.
The whole point is that the Qantas Group can operate a legacy carrier AND an LCC as a group cheaper than could two other entities separately. That's where it's strengths lie.
JQ actually helps support QF yields by ensuring there's a "home" within the Group for low yield traffic and second, ensures that on routes where there is only low yield traffic there's a lower cost base to ensure the Group's losses are minimized.
I am not necessarily a supporter of everything JQ and QF do and have done....and the future will be as different from today is from the past...but on this one issue, to the benefit of all QF Group employees, they have got it fairly right.
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Roguesville, cloud cuckooland
Posts: 1,197
Likes: 0
Received 16 Likes
on
5 Posts
ga trojan has hit the nail on the head. Has anyone ever seen a independent fully audited break down Jetstar's costs? Has anyone ever seen a Jetstar tug ever pushing back a Jetstar A330? Anyone ever seen a Jetstar A330 Flight Simulator?
I'll make it simple. Even though Jetstar rents those expensive capital items from the parent, has anyone ever seen what Jetstar pays for them compared to what anyone else pays for them?
No, and you never will. Do you know why? Because it would break forever the myth of the cost base differential between QF and J*. It would expose the lie of the constant promotion of Jetstar as the saviour of mainline.
In the real world, Jetstar would pay the same as anyone else does for fuel, maintenance, air navigation charges, aircraft leasing costs, tugs, simulators etc etc with the ONE difference being crewing costs. That is not enough to make the the mythical 30% trumpeted by QF management. That is nowhere near enough.
So can we get real about this please? Some of the Jetstar posters here are suffering from hubris. One day the lie will be exposed. What goes around comes around.
I'll make it simple. Even though Jetstar rents those expensive capital items from the parent, has anyone ever seen what Jetstar pays for them compared to what anyone else pays for them?
No, and you never will. Do you know why? Because it would break forever the myth of the cost base differential between QF and J*. It would expose the lie of the constant promotion of Jetstar as the saviour of mainline.
In the real world, Jetstar would pay the same as anyone else does for fuel, maintenance, air navigation charges, aircraft leasing costs, tugs, simulators etc etc with the ONE difference being crewing costs. That is not enough to make the the mythical 30% trumpeted by QF management. That is nowhere near enough.
So can we get real about this please? Some of the Jetstar posters here are suffering from hubris. One day the lie will be exposed. What goes around comes around.
