Qantas Cuts Capacity in Response to Oil Prices

[Lukas M]

Originally Posted by Greg F

Also on the Tiger front I read somewhere with a big boss saying ' Tiger Australia is traveling reasonably well ' which isn't that convincing...

or when he goes
"We are not planning to raise fare prices across the board"" so Basically saying "Were commiting suicide"

[Stuart Trevena]

Hi All,

So why aren't JQ axing the Perth-Melb (Tulla) flight?

It leaves nearly the same time as the QF Flight?

If they must keep that flight, at least ops it Avalon instead of having a duplicate flight.

Stuart

[Grant Smith]

Originally Posted by Lukas Mahoney

or when he goes
"We are not planning to raise fare prices across the board"" so Basically saying "Were commiting suicide"

Yes Lukas, because you are an aviation finance guru

FYI: It's we're as in we are, not were - your above comment implies that Tiger was / had been (somehow) committing suicide...

[Andrew P]

Originally Posted by Michael Morrison

perhaps free up a 332 to replace QF on MNL/HNL totally or some NRT services from say PER?

Axing of SYD-CHC (mostly LCC's at CHC these days?)

then in today's SMH

Qantas chief reaches for the knife

amid speculation it could look to cut services on routes such as Manila, Honolulu and even some trans-Tasman services.

wonder if this Board is the source of the writer speculation???

Banjo

[Sarah C]

I think the writer is spot on. I wonder how the loads are for Manila, they certainly are not full. Honolulu just increased service by one per week so that may go back (due to grounding two 767). I also think Japan is on the cutting block too- I say it would be first to go

[Lukas M]

I think we might see those 9 Daily AVV-SYD services cut to at least 7

[Steve Jones]

Lots of empty seats on SYD-CBR too to keep up the frequency (esp as QF have added more 737s to compete with the Ejets), but I guess QF won't cut services (or downgrade to Dash 8s on some services) unless Virgin reduce...

[Lukas M]

Didn't that A321 that was cancelled have a bad airframe???, or a not healthy airframe. Apparently its not in the best of conditions

[Michael Morrison]

Originally Posted by Lukas Mahoney

Didn't that A321 that was cancelled have a bad airframe???, or a not healthy airframe?

Thats what they are saying on PPRUNE (are you flyer-18 737 over there?)

How many more 738's are due this year? I guess if they are coming on more 734's are to be retired?

QF have also wanted to get out of OOL for a while - so high oil prices are a good way to finally be done with that market.

[Andrew M]

Expect cuts to Japan, Honolulu in my opinion