Jetstar Pulling out of regional NZ
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Jetstar Pulling out of regional NZ
Just heard on the midday TV1 news that Jetstar will be ending their regional NZ services wef 30 November. Another kick in the guts for the people living in these areas. Now the greedy national carrier will charge whatever they want and goodbye to specials and deals. Just like Mt Cook did in the 70's and 80's when they had the monopoly on Mt Cook and Queenstown. GRRRRRRR
Just heard on the midday TV1 news that Jetstar will be ending their regional NZ services wef 30 November. Another kick in the guts for the people living in these areas. Now the greedy national carrier will charge whatever they want and goodbye to specials and deals. Just like Mt Cook did in the 70's and 80's when they had the monopoly on Mt Cook and Queenstown. GRRRRRRR
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So far I believe if JQ Regional does close the crew will be offered positions at, Qlink, Jetstar (both NZ and Aus), Jetconnect, and I think there may be an option of Express Freighters Australia.
So far I believe if JQ Regional does close the crew will be offered positions at, Qlink, Jetstar (both NZ and Aus), Jetconnect, and I think there may be an option of Express Freighters Australia.
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Are not some flight crew on secondment over there due to crewing issues?
Jetstar have the image in NZ that Tiger has here. Damage was done in the first couple of years and the ship has long sailed.
Your 6pm A321 Melbourne to Sydney is full of suits. Your 6pm Auckland to Christchurch is half fill leisure. The corps just won’t touch it over there
Jetstar have the image in NZ that Tiger has here. Damage was done in the first couple of years and the ship has long sailed.
Your 6pm A321 Melbourne to Sydney is full of suits. Your 6pm Auckland to Christchurch is half fill leisure. The corps just won’t touch it over there
Flights always full but if you only charge $29 a seat you ain’t gonna make a dollar. Kiwi’s, like aussies, always prefer the national carrier but with Qantas and AIRNZ partnering up, was this part of the deal?
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The Qantas group thinks about the almighty $, and if they reposition these pilots into roles inside the group efficiently they save $'s on redundancy. If this was a reposition to SH or LH then yes I can see a minimum of a 12 month wait, but it's not. The subsidiaries who would take these pilots are still actively recruiting so to absorb the roles of 5 airframes into 4 subsidiaries I can see it being done reasonably quickly.
Not sure if this is still the case but it was a few years ago and has stuck.
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when the boss isn't making any money, you're really only on a paid job search. its a shame, but if they'd spread their focus to include maintaining a reliable schedule right from the start rather than a laser focus on costs they might be in a different position now.
sorry for the upheaval for those affected.
sorry for the upheaval for those affected.
Standby for Aus-based expansion. There's plenty of regional ports that QF currently don't serve.
The crew could be offered jobs in QLink in Aus. There's plenty of vacancies, especially on the Q300 fleet.
The FO base is pretty strong (i.e. averaging 30hrs stick a month [Brissy FO's struggling to hit double digit stick).
Definitely will keep at least a few of the airframes, they seem to be running pretty close to capacity recently.