Jetstar new base FIJI !!!!
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Jetstar new base FIJI !!!!
Fiji and the off shoring of Qantas/Jetstar
April 9, 2011 – 12:10 pm, by Ben Sandilands
The obvious but not yet official cancellation of an order for eight 787 Dreamliners by Fiji carrier, Air Pacific, is probably about a lot more than the inability of Boeing to get its composite airliner act together.
If the Qantas investment of around 46 per cent of Air Pacific has a future at all, it lies in a transition of that stake into a new low cost offshore franchise for Jetstar.
But such an end game scenario has a few problems. Fiji has trouble at a government level in getting on with the rest of the world, and its own ethnic Indian population, and rightly or wrongly, is no longer seen as a particularly inexpensive and low risk place to sink funds.
Air Pacific is also in the red, according to official reports, and under intense competitive pressure from Jetstar and Pacific Blue services.
Exiting a commitment for eight of anything at this stage is hardly surprising, and it would not have been done this without the direction of Qantas given its interest in the carrier, which it has in recent times tried to sell.
If however costs and political risks are considered acceptable, Fiji has obvious appeal as a low cost Pacific carrier base, and a location which Qantas could find very attractive as a means of undermining or destroying its own higher cost and gradually imploding Australian based activities as well as setting up a bit of price tension with its Jetstar and Jetconnect operations in New Zealand.
Is this too cynical an assessment? Not after its recent efforts with the basing of Australian registered A330s in Singapore under Singaporean labor rules to by-pass the Australian labor and tax law obligations the current management of Qantas appear to regard as odious.
Once Air Pacific is dead, or transformed under an orange star, or replaced by same, an operation based on A330s, or 787s if they ever pass muster, could emerge.
April 9, 2011 – 12:10 pm, by Ben Sandilands
The obvious but not yet official cancellation of an order for eight 787 Dreamliners by Fiji carrier, Air Pacific, is probably about a lot more than the inability of Boeing to get its composite airliner act together.
If the Qantas investment of around 46 per cent of Air Pacific has a future at all, it lies in a transition of that stake into a new low cost offshore franchise for Jetstar.
But such an end game scenario has a few problems. Fiji has trouble at a government level in getting on with the rest of the world, and its own ethnic Indian population, and rightly or wrongly, is no longer seen as a particularly inexpensive and low risk place to sink funds.
Air Pacific is also in the red, according to official reports, and under intense competitive pressure from Jetstar and Pacific Blue services.
Exiting a commitment for eight of anything at this stage is hardly surprising, and it would not have been done this without the direction of Qantas given its interest in the carrier, which it has in recent times tried to sell.
If however costs and political risks are considered acceptable, Fiji has obvious appeal as a low cost Pacific carrier base, and a location which Qantas could find very attractive as a means of undermining or destroying its own higher cost and gradually imploding Australian based activities as well as setting up a bit of price tension with its Jetstar and Jetconnect operations in New Zealand.
Is this too cynical an assessment? Not after its recent efforts with the basing of Australian registered A330s in Singapore under Singaporean labor rules to by-pass the Australian labor and tax law obligations the current management of Qantas appear to regard as odious.
Once Air Pacific is dead, or transformed under an orange star, or replaced by same, an operation based on A330s, or 787s if they ever pass muster, could emerge.
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"a very attractive as a means of undermining or destroying its own higher cost and gradually imploding Australian based activities "
do you think they take pleasure in doing this?
do you think they take pleasure in doing this?
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Originally Posted by ciport
do you think they take pleasure in doing this?
Good wind up , but no cigar!
As Air Pacific are unable to base their own expat pilots in-country , the chances of an offshore Co basing their pilots are as likely as the proverbial.
Next Rumour please!
As Air Pacific are unable to base their own expat pilots in-country , the chances of an offshore Co basing their pilots are as likely as the proverbial.
Next Rumour please!
