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Virgin blue finish lst-bne
According to DJ march in-flight magazine. They will be ending LST-BNE flights at the end of this month. Does that mean that there is no more direct flights from LST to Queensland as Jetstar pulled their flights also a while back. I guess its a sign of the times. Are HBA flights to QLD still running on either airline?
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DJ did say when they launched that service that it was a seasonal service, meaning when demand is there they will operate it.
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Jetstar still fly BNE-LST 4x weekly and the flight is still in the schedules for November. Jetstar no longer fly BNE-HBA. But DJ maintain a daily nonstop BNE-HBA flight as well as many one stop connections via SYD/MEL to both LST/HBA
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2012 FLIGHTS 26JAN QF501 BNE-SYD 73H VH-VXK // 26JAN QF2010 SYD-TMW DH3 VH-TQE // 30JAN FQ606 TMW-BNE J41 VH-TAH // 01AUG DJ1384 BNE-ADL 73H // 11AUG DJ1407 ADL-BNE E90]/ |
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From memory, when JQ ceased its BNE-HBA flights, they said that the Launceston flights were doing quite well with reasonable loads. It's no wonder they didn't have good loads on the Hobart flights - the return flight to BNE didn't arrive until just before midnight, whereas the DJ flight left in the early afternoon.
With regards to Virgin Blue's BNE-LST service, this was only ever going to be a seasonal service and may be back next summer. |
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The 170s have been moved to the new TSV flights in April. OOL/CBR/ROK/CNS
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So that's where the aircraft comes from to start all these new flights out of TSV. I was wondering where they were switching the capacity from to do it. The new flights per-drw and mel-drw that 737 also would have came from somewhere else. I don't think Virgin are grounding any planes as such they just utilize them on new routes. Which in a business sense is very good. Also the mel-nan and adl-nan are 2 more. Its good that Virgin is doing a lot of expansion this year despite the recession. What new routes have Qantas or Jetstar announced lately in Australia? I can only think of Jetstar new nz dom services which just replace QF nz routes which is not really a capacity increase. They must have parked up a few planes already.
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You start by saying that they are just simply re-arranging capacity rather than grounding them, and then say that they're doing a lot of expansion! New routes - yes. Expansion - no. |
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The main point I was getting at is. Virgin are starting all these new routes in a downturn where Qantas is not.
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