their press release did.


so why did they start if that was the playing field to begin with? can't help but wonder at their naivety.


would have thought THAT was something they'd have recognised immediately, you know ....

Solomons A320 arrived yet ?
 

Not sure exactly when Solomons A320 is due to take over from Strategics A320, but has the ex AC bird arrived in HIR yet ?

Apropos Strategic, this is a "trip report" posted on airliners.net from a poor unfortunate who took a Strategic A320 from Gatwick to the Gambia via Malaga. Makes interesting reading and to be honest does not reflect particularly well on Strategic Europe.

The aircraft was a sub-charter for Viking Hellas who were also doing a sub-charter for Viking. This, by the way, is not out of the ordinary in the European ACMI market. Notice the different nationalities of all the FA's on the various aircraft

To Gambia On Strategic (DUB-LGW-BJL Rtn W/EI & ZB) — Trip Reports Forum | Airliners.net

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Any news on how they are going? hows the perth base?
JD

..........perth base going well. a mate of mine down there flying the A320 grossing 200k+ pa and doing approx. 40 hours / month,staff happy.......life's good.

Announced today 2x daily A320 flights BNE-GLT from mid April. Now that's taking a gamble!

Talk about overcapacity...

will be interesting to see how long it lasts....Gladstone obviously desperate for a jet service...full service with $59 fares...:{

Might not be a bad idea at all.
Gladstone is only 'just' gearing up now for it's massive LNG projects. There are not enough houses long term to house all the resource sector punters who will be working there, plus house prices are going through the roof and are becoming well and truly overvalued, so if Strategic are smart and shore up a few contracts here and there you might be surprised at the FIFO revenue they may pick up from this route.
Food for thought.

18th April with 2 return flights to Bne 0645 ex Bne return 0845 then 1445 ex Bne return 1645 I think. Looks like it's geared to day trippers for the LNG Project, it gives a full working day in GLA.
We welcome it as we have only had Qlink here with no competition eg. I just did a search for a return tomorrow down at 1025 and back at 1800 price $803 ret. $800 fares are common. It'll be interesting to see Strategics regular fare structure. April is the startup date as that is when the Screening and new Terminal and the Runway widening will finish,the Runway rebuild and extension was completed but now the runway has to be widened to 45m hence the Notam for AD closure at night with the widening being done in sections at night as the major work was to keep the Airport open. That was a job well done.
I hope Strategic do well as this place I feel will support 2 Carriers:ok:

Frothy

Hey you got to give them credit for having a go.

If thats the case then you can expect to welcome Jetstar too upon works completion. Or at least as a replacement for the Q400.