5 new Virgin Blue routes

[Dave Parer]

Article from today's Townsville Bulletin about the services that kicked off yesterday. Typical media....all these new routes ex TSV will be operated by E170's, yet the photo in paper has the Mayor's from both Townsville and Rockhampton posing in front of a 737.......

Yesterday's inaugural flight from TSV to CNS was operated by VH-ZHB. Seems the push is now on to link TSV with DRW.

http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au...8101_news.html

[Dave Parer]

Oops.....typo by me.

Yesterday's inaugural flights were;

VH-ZHF operated TSV-CNS and TSV-CBR

VH-ZHB operated TSV-OOL and TSV-ROK

[Kain C]

Anyone know what A/C operated the inaugural CBR-HBA? The new HBA service seemed to bypass the news down here; nothing on the local news nor the local newspaper.
My turn to try it out tomorrow!

If your interested about loads etc, I was in CBR the yesterday and the inbound HBA sector had 30pax, and the Townsville arrival...Well, Id rather not say

It was only a Tuesday, but let us know Kain how it all went.

[Daniel M]

Originally Posted by Lukas M

and the Townsville arrival...Well, Id rather not say

Why not? For one, your pax figures for the HBA-CBR service are wrong. And secondly, the TSV-CBR service actually had a decent amount of pax...alot more than the HBA sector...perhaps get some firm facts next time

hey, just telling you what the aerocare guy told me. those world you have in bold is the exact same as they guy said! Who cares anyway, Tueday is usually a quieter day than most.

OOL-CBR appears to be a success.. E170 yes?

[Kain C]

perhaps get some firm facts next time

Are you going to share the firm facts?

[Dave Parer]

After all the media hype about the E170's all operating these new services out of Townsville, today 737 VH-VBN operated four of the sectors. Today's movements were;

DJ1637 TSV-CNS & DJ1636 CNS-TSV by VH-ZHB
DJ1888 TSV-CBR by VH-ZHB
DJ1887 CBR-TSV by VH-VBN
DJ1830 TSV-OOL & DJ1831 OOL-TSV by VH-VBN
DJ1906 TSV-ROK & DJ1905 ROK-TSV by VH-VBN

[Kain C]

but let us know Kain how it all went.

It all went very well on ZHC today. The CBR-HBA service arrived into HBA slightly early, and my HBA-CBR service also arrived 10 or so minutes early into CBR. The whole thing seemed to go very quickly as the flight time was only 1:15 or so in the end, which sure beats the 4 hours it takes to connect via MEL! Was told 78pax on CBR-HBA and 55 on the HBA-CBR, so good loads as you would expect heading into Easter. Had two captains on the flightdeck; is this unusual?

[Greg F]

it will be interesting to see how loads on HBA-CBR go hold up over a 6-12 month period