New JQ Domestic Services eff 01/03/10

[Jarden S]

The afternoon cns-mel flight will be operated by cns based A320 as at the moment there is a lot of spare capacity with the 2 A320s based in cns they only get 3 perth departures a week at 1815 they sit at the terminal in the afternoon from 1pm onwards.

[Brad Myer]

Perhaps the aircraft is swapped/rotated at KIX with the aircraft operating KIX-OOL or after operating KIX-CNS it may then move on to CNS-NRT? There are definitely options there. Not all aircraft have to be positioned with tag flights.

That would only work if the both KIX flights are daily. CNS-KIX-CNS is only 4x weekly.

[Chris Z]

Jarden,

It will actually be MEL based aircraft/crew doing that PM CNS run at this stage. The CNS based machines are ear marked for other opportunities.

[Roland D]

Originally Posted by Lukas M

So is the A332 on any Domestic routes at the moment apart from MEL-SYD?, even just temporarily. Remember seeing it on MEL-OOL few months back.

IIRC the A332's also do JQ 19/20 SYD-OOL-KIX

[Jarden S]

I read in the Cairns post that they are evaluating flights to NZ from Cairns. You think they could make the CNS-PER and CNS-ADL both daily up from 3-4 a week. Qantaslink 717s do daily flights from Cairns to Alice springs, Ayers rock and also double daily to Darwin. You think they could manage daily flights to the bigger 2 cities of PER and ADL

[Kain C]

There is some confusion as to the start date for these new services; according to QF website it is 1 March, but according to JQ website it is 7 March?

[Jamie D]

With reference to Liam Gibbs post re the perth flight?

is this the departure at roughly 350pm? do you have aby further info as to when the switch to an a332 is going to happen?

[J Brown]

No time frame was given, i'm sorry, although the turnaround time in PER was recently increased to accomodate the change when it happens.

The current flight is:
JQ968 MEL (1550) - PER (1700)
JQ969 PER (1800) - MEL (0030)
On Tuesday's the flight is opb A320, and runs 40mins later on the way over, this reduces to 20 on the way back.

A321's were meant to start on this route back on Oct 25th, however due to a number of factors (-VWT's late delivery for example) this didn't happen until last week.

[Kain C]

Perhaps the switch will be March 1 (or March 7), and the A320 it frees up can operate the new services? Only guessing!

[lloyd fox]

Originally Posted by Brad Myer

These domestic flights are probably being used to test VH-EBK which is due to begin JQ services in early DEC?

Also the new 4x weekly CNS-KIX-CNS A332 flights are now loaded in the schedules.

I cant see how this aircraft gets to/from CNS and what this aircraft does the other 3 days a week??

Thanks

EBK i believe arrived SYD today as JQ7991 from MNL NOW IN jq C/S.