More JetGo good news!
 

Nice!! SYD-ROM released to the public on the JetGo website today. Airfares from $249 one way. This should shut up some of the doubters, but obviously not all!
Gotta be better than travelling on an unreliable OTP lacking dinosaur Dash 8 :ok:
More good news to follow, probably on Friday this week :ok:

Good work JetGo, you certainly are giving it a fair crack. And from what my CASA source tells me some of the approval process was very straight forward and JetGo passed with high marks :ok:

smart move. Take the cheapest QF fare RMA/BNE/SYD of $240, add $9 & offer a nonstop service of 90 min (probably way less than this flying time) compared to fastest QF via BNE of 195 min, which is Dash 8, connecting to jet (which will probably suffer a congestion delay at BNE most of time)


Based purely on distance alone GLT/SYD should start at around $327 when compared to RMA/SYD, but $299 is a much better pricepoint, but unlike RMA/SYD, VA also does GLT/BNE/SYD from $155 with very few jets BNE/GLT, while QF fares start at $173.


Now they just have to fill aircraft & find other city/town pairs that don't have too much service via a big city like BNE, SYD & MEL & have some activity like FIFO.

Great news :ok:

IMHO this is the beginning of the end for the regional turboprop in Australia.

The fact is that punters don't like flying on noisy, slow, congested turboprops and now there is a new kid on the block offering fast, sleek and quiet jet services they will be overwhelmed by demand!

Coupled with the low costs and competitiveness of operating said jets especially on these sort of routes if I was Qantaslink or Rex I'd be very worried :ok::ok:

The beginning of the end?

Serious? Seen the price of fuel lately? :rolleyes:

Props will play a larger role than light jets in Aus for a very long time to come.

Don't get me wrong, I wish them all the best but they are servicing a niche market and the sub-50 seat jet market is only so big.

15 years ago regional airlines in the USA and Europe thought the 36-50 seat regional jets were the future and replaced their turboprops. Now those jets are parked (hence Jetgo picking them up) and the turboprops are still going strong.

Small jets over turboprop sectors, modest utilisation and state of resource market into the mix and suspect an RPT model of this ilk cannot be sustained. Different story if the business is underpinned by good contracts and customer/supplier relationships are maintained.
Good on the stakeholders for having the kahunas to get a new operation going with what appears to be a happy and competent operational management and team.

Yep 135/145s replaced with 170/175/195s (or Q400s on shorter sectors). There are only so many slots at the big hubs like Chicago or Atlanta.