Bonza has its AOC
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Regardless of whether they find a way out of today, it will be the end of Bonza.
A news story like this removes any sort of customer confidence and the little forward bookings they actually have, will drop off. Not sustainable.
A news story like this removes any sort of customer confidence and the little forward bookings they actually have, will drop off. Not sustainable.
I wonder if this is finally the end of the pipe dream that flying is cheap….like cheaper than catching a cab?
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If I were Gina or Twiggy, I’d buy Bonza’a AOC.
There’s been talk of them wanting to start their own FIFO airline since their Qantas flights got replaced with the Network bin-fire.
Get the AOC, get some of the pilots who are happy to move, pickup a bunch of extra pilots from NAA (who let’s face it, are all leaving anyway), lease a bunch of aircraft.
Then all their mines won’t have knife to their throat while QF IR play their games.
There’s been talk of them wanting to start their own FIFO airline since their Qantas flights got replaced with the Network bin-fire.
Get the AOC, get some of the pilots who are happy to move, pickup a bunch of extra pilots from NAA (who let’s face it, are all leaving anyway), lease a bunch of aircraft.
Then all their mines won’t have knife to their throat while QF IR play their games.
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I remember buying tickets for Compass II. It was cheaper and I was happy with the service. A few months later it crashed. A new airline in Australia is always going to operate under the assumption from potential customers that it is going to disappear.
If I were Gina or Twiggy, I’d buy Bonza’a AOC.
Huddo may be on the phone to Acquire the aoc.
In Australia one cannot buy an AOC, it is possible to buy the corporate entity, company say, that owns the AOC but that means the purchaser acquires all the assets and liabilities of that company.
It is fair say to say Bonza is all liabilities and no assets. So why would anyone buy it?
An AOC may take twelve months to acquire but better clean and clear than encumbered. "Huddo" has plenty of AOCs already.
If I were Gina or Twiggy, I’d buy Bonza’a AOC.
There’s been talk of them wanting to start their own FIFO airline since their Qantas flights got replaced with the Network bin-fire.
Get the AOC, get some of the pilots who are happy to move, pickup a bunch of extra pilots from NAA (who let’s face it, are all leaving anyway), lease a bunch of aircraft.
Then all their mines won’t have knife to their throat while QF IR play their games.
There’s been talk of them wanting to start their own FIFO airline since their Qantas flights got replaced with the Network bin-fire.
Get the AOC, get some of the pilots who are happy to move, pickup a bunch of extra pilots from NAA (who let’s face it, are all leaving anyway), lease a bunch of aircraft.
Then all their mines won’t have knife to their throat while QF IR play their games.
Would it work? Serious question. One thing we do know, they have the money.
Short answer, no. The miners simply don't have the FIFO volumes to make running their own air ops a viable proposition, leave alone the risk that they would be taking on. I was involved in some feasibility work along those lines on two occasions (albeit some time back now), once in the west, the other east coast; the per pax costs ran to almost double what we could get via contract.
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Bonza has no assets to speak except maybe the AOC and a few T-shirts and thumbs up signs.
no money either to play with so in a year or two any cash will be gone to administrators and liquidation likely unless some brave person submits a DOCA to buy a clean company and AOC
no money either to play with so in a year or two any cash will be gone to administrators and liquidation likely unless some brave person submits a DOCA to buy a clean company and AOC
Short answer, no. The miners simply don't have the FIFO volumes to make running their own air ops a viable proposition, leave alone the risk that they would be taking on. I was involved in some feasibility work along those lines on two occasions (albeit some time back now), once in the west, the other east coast; the per pax costs ran to almost double what we could get via contract.
Take a read of THIS on page 11 where Ellison lays out his idea and it would appear direct east coast to WA mine sites is where he sees the greatest benefit. Min Res are also huge in mining services contracting to most if not all the big WA miners, so leveraging into mining services contract aviation is probably on their radar.
I haven’t read anything on how min res is going about getting an AOC, but wouldn’t be surprised if they were to at least take a sniff if anything could be done with Bonza depending on where they are at with their own AOC and what liabilities Bonza has?
Min Res seem to be well underway with plans to operate their own airline. They are advertising for ground staff and rumours are of them already taking NAA pilots and cabin crew.
Take a read of THIS on page 11 where Ellison lays out his idea and it would appear direct east coast to WA mine sites is where he sees the greatest benefit. Min Res are also huge in mining services contracting to most if not all the big WA miners, so leveraging into mining services contract aviation is probably on their radar.
I haven’t read anything on how min res is going about getting an AOC, but wouldn’t be surprised if they were to at least take a sniff if anything could be done with Bonza depending on where they are at with their own AOC and what liabilities Bonza has?
Take a read of THIS on page 11 where Ellison lays out his idea and it would appear direct east coast to WA mine sites is where he sees the greatest benefit. Min Res are also huge in mining services contracting to most if not all the big WA miners, so leveraging into mining services contract aviation is probably on their radar.
I haven’t read anything on how min res is going about getting an AOC, but wouldn’t be surprised if they were to at least take a sniff if anything could be done with Bonza depending on where they are at with their own AOC and what liabilities Bonza has?