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Jetstar will take delivery of four new jets and add 77 return services a week to holiday destinations at a time when the economic downturn has forced arch-rival Virgin Blue to retreat by mothballing planes.
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Originally Posted by Brad Myer
Here is a list so far:
1 extra daily MEL-NTL-MEL
2 extra daily MEL-OOL-MEL
1 extra daily NTL-OOL-NTL
2 extra daily SYD-OOL-SYD
1 extra daily SYD-CNS-SYD
1 extra daily SYD-MCY-SYD
2 extra weekly CNS-PER-CNS
2 extra weekly ADL-CNS-ADL
3 extra weekly BNE-LST-BNE
4 extra weekly MEL-TSV-MEL
More to come....
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Originally Posted by Jarden S
MEL-CNS-MEL an extra daily
MEL-MCY-MEL 3 extra weekly
can be added to the list above
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All of these add up to 77 weekly services, so there are none left to add? But,
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Jetstar said the decision meant it would be able to offer 700,000 extra seats between the capital cities, the Gold Coast and other destinations in Queensland.
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yet there are no new services to HBA nor DRW!
There are a few curious ones too. NTL-OOL getting a second daily within an hour of their current one, when the load factors languished in the 60s and 70s this year seems like overkill. The lunchtime flights are hardly likely to be pulling in massive yields either. Maybe they are just changing the time of the existing flight and haven't taken the old one out? Surely OOL-HBA would be more viable than a second OOL-NTL?
Also, wouldn't it have been easier to make the daily MEL-TSV depart at the same time every day, rather than the patchy schedule they have come up with? SYD-TSV mustn't be doing to well if their 5 weekly can't even get an upgrade to daily but MEL-TSV can go from 3 per week to daily! ADL-CNS going to 6 per week? Why not just do daily for convenience, especially since Friday (busiest day of the week) is the day that misses out?
Then again, the schedules are still showing at least 7 daily AVV-SYD for the same period, so there is still some updating to do. Maybe it will turn out all right in the end.