Jetgo becomes RPT

[Rowan McKeever]

Jetgo has been awarded a RPT AOC and is flying a promo tour to Roma and Gladstone this coming Friday (announcements expected).

http://australianaviation.com.au/201...t-november-10/

[Rowan McKeever]

Jetgo's promotional tour today has confirmed Sydney-Gladstone services will commence from 1 December, subject to regulatory approvals. Morning and afternoon services Monday to Friday (nothing on weekends), operating either side of the Sydney-Roma rotation.

[Mick F]

Interesting. QF couldn't seem to make SYD-GLA work, so good luck to JetGo on that route.

Mick

[Greg Hyde]

The issue will be "bums on seats".

You would think that most pax will be business orientated considering GLA is not really a jumping off point for the reef. GLA only services Heron Is.

I would expect that most locals would be heading to Brissie rather than SYD.

I wish them luck, but I can't see the PAX volume.

[Rowan McKeever]

I guess it's pretty much the same capacity as QF were offering but split over double the flights... maybe they figure the additional frequency will be the clincher for them?

[Rowan McKeever]

Jetgo has announced on facebook the SYD-GLT service is suspended from 9 February (next Monday). Likewise, the BNE-TMW service which was originally planned for a 19 January start before being deferred to 2 February still has not flown according to flightaware and flightradar24.

[Yusef D]

I don't get why a charter company would want to take the enormous gamble of RPT against networked competitors.

[Nigel C]

If no-one gambled then we'd never have new players enter the market. They tried, they appear to have failed, but good on them for giving it a go.

[Robert.M]

Though RPT has been rather soft, even for the major players. I've noticed that the 6:30AM flight from WGA to SYD has been reduced or dropped.

[Max C]

Looks like JetGo's expansion of the BNE-TMW route to 2 x daily isn't happening.

They have added a Sunday service though.