Qantas Cuts Capacity in Response to Oil Prices

[Montague S]

can anyone say the word merger?

[Kain C]

Jetstar would exit its Sydney-Whitsunday Coast, Adelaide-Sunshine Coast, and Brisbane-Hobart routes from July

How ridiculous!!! JQ only said the other week they were looking at adding new HBA-OOL services as demand from HBA-South East Queensland was booming! The demand obviously is booming as DJ had previously added additional 737 services on top of their existing daily HBA-BNE flight! Hopefully DJ will go up to double daily now.

[Greg F]

Open your eyes... look around the world... its happening everywhere and at a rather rapid pace too... reduce flights and A/C and fly at full capacity on what you have.

I cant see why DJ wont do a 'double daily' as you say...
Their share prices a rocketing up!!! they are going great!!! (slight sarcasm )
Its funny that REX is making more $ per quarter than DJ does in a year..

DJ will follow suit, they will just do it in the way they always do,
Let QF or JQ do it first, cop the media bashing, then they sneakily do it and nobody notices...

[Michael Morrison]

Originally Posted by Greg F

Their share prices a rocketing up!!! they are going great!!! (slight sarcasm )
Its funny that REX is making more $ per quarter than DJ does in a year..

...

According to Rex that is.

virgin's last profit guidance was to have profit of around $140M for the full year....

Rex's latest announcement was for a profit of $8.2m for the 3rd quarter with full year profit expected to be around $23M....

Now how on earth is $23M from Rex in year more than Virgin and $140M?????

[Marty H]

Originally Posted by Montague S

can anyone say the word merger?

If that was the case what likely merge could take place?

[Rhys Xanthis]

Originally Posted by Marty H

If that was the case what likely merge could take place?

perhaps with singapore? its been bandied about for some time (but i personally highly doubt it).

i doubt any merger will be done at all.

[Michael Cleary]

All prices are going up, not just within AUS.

I am going to Zurich in October and made the Booking (Points Redemption) back in February. At that time the Taxes were AUD 482.88 - and a look now shows the Taxes to be AUD 547.18 for a Booking made today - and will probably be higher by the time that I depart.

These Oil Prices are causing belt tightening everywhere.

For info, a SYD-ZRH-SYD return, departing SYD 04/10/08 returning 04/11/08 on SQ is AUD 1590.00 + 547.18 Taxes = AUD 2137.18 - the Taxes accounting for 25% of the Total. Not surprisingly I guess, but to depart on SQ222 (A380) on that date adds AUD 200 to the fare.

[Jason Carruthers]

It's very odd JQ are dropping BNE-HBA meanwhile keeping it's 4x weekly BNE-LST rotation. I would have expected LST or both to go.

IIRC Isn't BNE-LST Subsidised?



Jason

[Ian Garton]

Originally Posted by Jason Carruthers

It's very odd JQ are dropping BNE-HBA meanwhile keeping it's 4x weekly BNE-LST rotation. I would have expected LST or both to go.

I find this one surprising too. Having flown JQ on this route a few times the flights have always been pretty full. ACARS load reports for the route seem consistantly good too.

It would have surprised me less if JQ dropped the BNE-DRW nightly instead.

[Tom Lohdan]

Originally Posted by Michael Cleary

I am going to Zurich in October and made the Booking (Points Redemption) back in February. At that time the Taxes were AUD 482.88 - and a look now shows the Taxes to be AUD 547.18 for a Booking made today - and will probably be higher by the time that I depart.

Depends on the Airline to how they charge you with taxes.

Last month I did a weekend MEL-LAX-PHL-SFO-MEL cost me $62US in taxes on a reward ticket.

Which is weird, because when I took a friend to LAX on reward in December it cost $72US in taxes.

I am 1K with United so many fee's are removed.

Details: MEL on Saturday, 11 hours in LA, overnight flight to Philly, 11 hours, evening flight from PHL with a connection in SFO to MEL via SYD, and rocked up to work by 11am. Not Hotels or showers, amazing what you do in a bathroom of an aircraft No checkin luggage either.