TT announce ADL-BNE & BNE-ROK

[Jim W]

Looks like they are ditching ADL-CBR though - from January

[Jarden S]

That's a shame maybe the competition is too strong on that route.

[Kain C]

I decided to work out the rotations of TT A320s to see if there were any more gaps in the schedule for new services to be added. I worked out the rotations for a Monday, as it was simpler to display, rather than complicating matters with samll time changes for Tuesdays, and completely different schedules on weekends. There seem to be 5 MEL based A320s, and 3 ADL based A320s. Most aircraft have one long turnaround at about lunchtime (1 hour or so, compared with 30mins usually). Aircraft 1 in my list has a large gap (indicated by ...) which could accomodate either a MEL-OOL-MEL, MEL-ROK-MEL, MEL-MKY-MEL or MEL-ASP-MEL.

So as for MEL-OOL going from currently 3 daily, then up to 4 daily for Jan-Mar, and back to only 1 daily from April, there is a spot for maybe one more to be added (as per above), or I guess the other option is that they open an OOL base, with 1 aircraft which could operate up to 3 OOL-MEL return per day?

1:

MEL-BNE 0605
BNE-MEL 0845
MEL-LST 1140
LST-MEL 1315
...
MEL-BNE 2025
BNE-MEL 2305

2:

MEL-HBA 0605
HBA-MEL 0750
MEL-MCY 0935
MCY-MEL 1220
MEL-ADL 1515
ADL-MEL 1705
MEL-SYD 1920
SYD-MEL 2115

3:

MEL-SYD 0650
SYD-MEL 0845
MEL-OOL 1045
OOL-MEL 1315
MEL-SYD 1705
SYD-MEL 1900

4:

PER-MEL 0120
MEL-SYD 0735
SYD-OOL 0930
OOL-SYD 1125
SYD-MEL 1320
MEL-BNE 1545
BNE-MEL 1825

5:

MEL-ADL 0605
ADL-HBA 0725
HBA-ADL 1015
ADL-MEL 1210
MEL-SYD 1440
SYD-MEL 1635
MEL-SYD 1835
SYD-MEL 2030
MEL-PER 2245


6:

ADL-BNE 0605
BNE-ROK 0925
ROK-BNE 1110
BNE-ADL 1240
ADL-SYD 1640
SYD-ADL 1930

7:

ADL-SYD 0655
SYD-ADL 0945
ADL-OOL 1210
OOL-SYD 1530
SYD-OOL 1725
OOL-ADL 1920

8:

ADL-MEL 0620
MEL-SYD 0835
SYD-MEL 1030
MEL-ADL 1230
ADL-MEL 1435
MEL-HBA 1655
HBA-MEL 1840
MEL-ADL 2100

[Steve Jones]

MEL-CBR is missing from the list, so maybe that falls into that gap?

Having a look there it just dosn't seem possible for MEL-ROK/MKY/ASP to fit in.
Mackay is only 4 weekly and Rocky is 3 weekly so that should fit in the slot in Aircraft number 1 as Kain said. But that leaves ASP, and the Alice is stronger than Rocky as a 3weekly service, so mabye they are pulling MEL-ROK for the low season hence the BNE-ROK to keep that port still operating?

Either way, its seems a case of being in more places than one. OOL has been killed mid-week, Perth is now a red-eye, Canberra is again in doubt, MEL-ROK looks in trouble, so what are they trying to achieve..? Wouldn't surprise me if TT turned a profit sooner than TR does again.

Well they cant fit anymore A320's in Melbourne unless the apron is expanded for pax aircraft down there.

[Jarden S]

So they got 8 A320's now. Its good to see their schedule laid out like what kain did above. But some missing flights leaves a few questions. The ADL-CBR has gone for good it seems. They need the nineth aircraft to hold the schedules together, as now there is no slack left if one A320 goes out of service for any reason.

[Brandon Giacomin]

I thought they only had 7 ( VNB,VNC,VND,VNF,VNG,VNH & VNJ). Whats the rego of there 8th one?

[Jarden S]

According to CASA they only have 7 now. So maybe the list of schedules that Kain made is for next year sometime when the 8th A320 is operating.

[Steve Jones]

I think I saw somewhere that MEL-MKY is going to daily and that MEL-ROK is disappearing (but getting dauly BNE-ROK), but not sure.

[Kain C]

That would be interesting Steve. The schedule does allow the MEL-ROK market to be serviced daily via BNE with adequate connections (slightly long on the southbound trip though). Also, provided that you have hand luggage only, the schedule allows the MEL-ASP market to be serviced on Tue,Thu,Sat via ADL with the same aircraft operating the through service (number 5 on my list which does ADL-HBA-ADL on the Mon,Wed,Fri,Sun). So maybe MEL-ASP non-stop is getting the chop?

Originally Posted by Jarden S

According to CASA they only have 7 now. So maybe the list of schedules that Kain made is for next year sometime when the 8th A320 is operating.

Yes, my list is for NS10 (i.e. March 28 onwards). So they have 7 aircraft now, how many new ones are they getting next year? Seemingly at least 2 (surely they need 1 back-up), but if they were to get 3 then they could open an OOL base and put those OOL-MEL services back on.