HOBAY 3 -

Your extra 3 frequencies.

JQ 701 MELHBA 0600 0715 M W F
JQ 700 HBAMEL 0745 0900 M W F

Darwin has got to be short-term (2-3 years max). The baby bus is the wrong aeroplane for the flying SE Asia flying.

Jets**** chop n change on the smell of an oily fart...

RFN,

If you look on the doorstep of Darwin, SE Asia is serviced predominately by narrow body aircraft. ALL the low cost carriers in Asia are using narrow body aircraft exclusively!!!

Time to have a look outside your front door and draw a 1500 nm arc around Darwin, you might be shocked by the number of countries and people there.

That will be good news for those who stick it out in Darwin then. Jetstar will pay to move them up there at great expense and then pay to move them back after a couple of years.

It will be a bit like an all expenses paid holiday in the top end.

mmm......I could have sworn I saw an Air Asia X A330 in Melbourne recently, and I believe they have some 340s on order also.

Those aircraft are operating on long haul out of Asia, not within.

Does Jetstar pay moving costs?

Ask the Adelaide base what "costs" were covered.

Ballpark on a Hobart to Darwin move anyone?

yeah keg they do.

and for direct anywhere , jq do dn to ho chi minh which is 2000nm ish.

and dn to sing which is 1850 ish.


what's the 1500nm reference due to. :confused:

these are current routes they have been doing for months/years

Had to laugh this morning, Westerway was being interviewed on local radio as the media are saying Jetstar is pulling out of the state, he was asked if Jetstar would reconsider the axing of the Overnight / early flight out, he said " No, now that we have closed our crew base we cant do overnighting aircraft due to the crews needed" So is it to hard to out a crew up in a hotel like Virgin do at many ports......

Is there something in the EBA that says crews must be at there home port of a night?

Its all about the Five million a year the NT goverment are giving to Jet Star to base crews there by the end of june. Profiting at the expense of crew once again. Pricks

Anyone care to guess from what hole Buchanan crawled?

No but he can go back there! Wonder if the NT have freedom of information that would be able to supply how much this mob were given

If you all refuse to move then what will happen....

I don't know if he crawled or walked or if he came from a hole but I believe that he was working for Boston Consulting and found himself attached to the Jetstar start-up team that did all the planning and so on for the establishment of the 'airline'. From there he was employed by Jetstar as, from memory, its number one commercial dude. I recall that he first hit the headlines over news of certain behaviours on a flight over the Pacific.

Exactly Ken!
Any suprise the same dreary anti-staff message is replayed over and over again.....

Anyone have info on pilot numbers going to DRW?

Just heard from a mate that although J* are saying that this big move or shuffle of the chairs will result in no new jobs, or promotions, why are they offering jobs to new hires to start in Darwin in a month or so as f/o's??? I now of atleast 2 guys who have been offered jobs with Jetstar based in Darwin, and they were asking them to be on course in 4 weeks !!!!!
Is this because they are thinking they wont get enough guys to go up there??!!
Sounds like the management are telling the troops one thing, and doing the opposite!!!!!

the call
 

Has anyone had the dreaded call to say you have to move yet?:confused:

There has been 15 FO slots vaccant for some time. They will be recruited into Darwin. 25 Capt and 25 FO to go to Darwin all up. Most from CNS, SYD and MEL.