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Old 11th March 2011, 12:33 PM
Kain C Kain C is offline
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Originally Posted by Ryan K View Post
I'm hoping there's a serious mistake on Virgin's website. Over parts of April and then all of May and June, there are only 3 daily flights from HBA and LST to MEL. The latest flight to leave LST to MEL is 1.25pm! LST has gone all 737, however HBA has had one service downgraded to an E90. DJ are certainly losing market share in Tasmania.
I agree. Madness!

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Originally Posted by Lukas M View Post
May/June last year was a bloodbath between the three LCC with extreme amounts of capacity. Jetstar pulled back early axing something like 30% of its schedule whilst Tiger and Virgin battled it out and lost quite alot of money.

I remember last year some carriers had more crew onboard than pax.
Last year HBA-MEL load factor was 81.4% in April and 78.8% in May, so it is hardly struggling, especially over Easter where this year there aren't even any seats available on some days!
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