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Batavia and others planning Australia flights
PER,SYD,MEL for Batavia
http://www.travelweekly.com.au/dirpl...26_07_2010.pdf Also see below from Capa news. Five Indonesian carriers, Batavia Airlines, Sriwijaya Air, Mandala Airlines, Lion Air, and Indonesia AirAsia have applied for a share of the additional 4,000 weekly seats between Indonesia and Australia, according to a Kompas.com report. The Australian-Indonesian bilateral air services agreement was recently expanded, allowing each side's airlines to increase capacity from 10,800 to 14,800 seats per week. Last edited by lloyd fox; 26th July 2010 at 03:41 PM. Reason: more info provided |
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Hainan plots Aussie presence
China’s Hainan Airlines is
exploring opportunities to fly into Australia from Beijing and Shanghai with its parent company set to invest up to $US200m in the Australian market. The entire board of HNA Group, comprising 318 delegates, will arrive in Sydney tomorrow to assess investment opportunities and meet with senior government ministers. It’s believed direct air services will be a major focus of talks. Tourism Australia indicated last month it was keen to partner with airlines in China on marketing initiatives to drive visitation between the two countries. HNA Group is a major shareholder in Hong Kong Aviation Company, which leases and manages 68 aircraft to airlines such as Qantas and Emirates. “We have a long-term view to deploy significant capital in the Asia Pacific region and Australia is at the core of our international expansion strategy,” said HNA Group executive director Adam Tan, The boss of Hong Kong Aviation Capital, Mathis Shinnick, said the goal is to “double our aviation portfolio over the next year”. The HNA Group recently put in a joint bid to one of the largest seaports in Australia, with investment opportunities also sought in the aviation, hospitality and tourism industries http://www.travelweekly.com.au/dirpl...26_07_2010.pdf |
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Jarden this is already posted under the China Hainan thread.
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Another story on this from:http://www.centreforaviation.com/new...-airasia/page1
Five Indonesian carriers, Batavia Airlines, Sriwijaya Air, Mandala Airlines, Lion Air, and Indonesia AirAsia have applied for a share of the additional 4,000 weekly seats between Indonesia and Australia, according to a Kompas.com report. The Australian-Indonesian bilateral air services agreement was recently expanded, allowing each side's airlines to increase capacity from 10,800 to 14,800 seats per week. Batavia Air has received verbal in-principle approval to operate to Australia (destinations not disclosed), according to the report. Indonesia AirAsia, which already operates to Perth, has applied to launch four times weekly Denpasar-Darwin A320 service in Oct-2010, to replace routes suspended by Garuda Indonesia. Jetstar's Australian operation also operates on the route with A320 equipment. This will increase the competitive pressure on flag carrier Gaaruda, as it seeks to turn around its operation, as well as enhancing Indonesia's inbound tourism opportunities. There is talk on another website that Batavia will use the A319 to Perth and their brand new A330-200 to Sydney and Melbourne all serving Denpasar. |
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Thanks Jarden,can i explain to some a.net posters and other web sites, that i do not post on, that these 4,000 seats increase applies only to BNE,SYD,MEL,PER.These 4 cities only.All other towns and cities such as OOL,ADL,CNS,PHE,DRW etc etc have unlimited flights available to them.Eg Air Asia could fly 20 times a day to Indonesia from DRW if they wanted to.They still have to get permission from both countries aviation authorities to do so BUT they are not limited to how many flights they can operate.THE 4,000 seats are only limited to those 4 cities of BNE,SYD,MEL and PER.So if all these 5 indonesian airlines are applying for these 4,000 seats then they plan to only use these seats to some or all of those 4 bigger cities.
I do know that some people on a.net and other boards do not understand this fact. |
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From the IASC web site
REGISTER OF AVAILABLE CAPACITY Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government INDONESIA DESIGNATION STATUS: MULTIPLE AVAILABLE CAPACITY: (a) Unrestricted capacity between points in Australia, except Sydney, Melbourne (including Avalon), Brisbane and Perth. (b) 4000 seats per week in each direction to and from Sydney, Melbourne (including Avalon), Brisbane and Perth. Note: In the event that an Australian airline or airlines wish to operate capacity which would result in the total capacity available in paragraph (b) above, being exceeded by an amount of 150 seats or less, the aeronautical authorities will permit such minor variations. ALL CARGO CAPACITY: Three (3) all cargo services per week in each direction with any aircraft type. |
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It has been reported in the Cairns post that Air Asia is considering serving Cairns non stop from DPS would the A320 have the range for that I wonder?
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Carriers plead Indonesia case
Qantas, Strategic Airlines and
Pacific Blue have pleaded their cases to the air services regulator in a bid to secure additional capacity between Australia and Indonesia. The carriers have filed submissions with the International Air Services Commission after a further 4,000 seats were made available on the route last month (Travel Today, July 26). The route has seen extraordinary growth in the past year, carrying 1.26 million passengers in the 12 months to June. Six carriers now ply the route and more are expected to begin operations this year. However Qantas, Strategic and Pacific Blue all claim there is sufficient demand to justify a capacity increase. Qantas, which has applied for 3,898 of the available seats, argued that Jetstar’s increase in market share of 15 percentage points in the past three years has masked an overall group decline of five points. Qantas’s share has fallen by 20 points in the same period, said David Epstein, Qantas group executive, government and corporate affairs. In addition, Jetstar has been unable to price match competitors between Perth and Denpasar because of its lack of capacity, the submission states. Qantas also took a veiled swipe at Strategic Airlines’ application for 1716 seats, saying it was surprised that a “small local player to date, suddenly has the capability to undertake such a large increase in services”. Strategic, however, described its sales as “extraordinary”, with head of commercial, Damien Vasta telling the IASC that he expects the carrier to have sold 20,000 seats by early October. Vasta said the three times weekly Perth- Denpasar service will be ramped up to daily by March 31, 2011 should its application be successful. Direct flights from Brisbane and Melbourne to Denpasar will also be introduced as early as June 30, 2011. Pacific Blue, which has applied for 2,340 seats, said fares have “demonstrably lowered” since its entry on the route in November 2008. The new capacity will allow Pacific Blue to “maintain competitive pressure” in a market which has grown 43% since its entry. http://www.travelweekly.com.au/dirpl...20_08_2010.pdf |
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Perth to Bali airfares could be as low as $100 when new price war starts:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...ly-in-air-war/ |
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