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Ollie Onion

7th Oct 2015 00:13

J* Auckland to Rarotonga

So I see that Jetstar has put sale fares online this morning for AKL - RARO flights commencing in the new year. I haven't seen any other announcements about this?

Leaves AKL at 20:40 and arrives back at 06:00, that should be a nice duty :sad:

moa999

7th Oct 2015 07:04

Pattern actually commences in SYD/MEL
Jetstar announces NZ - Rarotonga flights - Business - NZ Herald News

Attractive compared to parking an aircraft in AKL overnight I guess

Ollie Onion

7th Oct 2015 07:35

I assume they have done the start in SYD / MEL as that circumvents the flying rights to Raro. They can now claim this is an Oz to Cook Islands service that just transits AKL. I do believe NZ crews will be flying the sectors as a continuation of an early Syd / MEL duty.

Goat Whisperer

7th Oct 2015 10:02

Surely not MEL-AKL-RAR-AKL in a day?? The Tasman crew would have to get off and the second crew would do a red eye Raro return, just like DJ used to.

framer

8th Oct 2015 06:56

Why not MEL- AKL -RAR then into the hotel for 24 hours? That would be a fairly sweet duty.

Going Nowhere

8th Oct 2015 06:57

except that the flights only go 3 days a week

cavemanzk

10th Oct 2015 04:14

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Why not MEL- AKL -RAR then into the hotel for 24 hours? That would be a fairly sweet duty.

Because that would either require overnighting AKL based crew in MEL, or using MEL based crew.

We're as running it as, AKL-MEL-AKL-RAR-AKL would only require the use of two AKL crew sets and no accommodation etc.

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