Jetstar this morning announced the transfer of one of its international routes, Perth-Jakarta-Singapore, to Jetstar Asia.
Actually that’s not what it highlighted in a concurrent announcement that its Perth-Bali service would rise from four times weekly to daily from 13 August, but it is the bit that will be noticed among Qantas employees and in [...]
Tag Archives: AirAsia
Jetstar lets slip another ‘ace’ in the coming brawl with Tiger
June 15, 2009 – 12:33 pm
Qantas and the Malaysian equation
January 10, 2009 – 6:43 pm
Since almost everyone in the country is speculating on a Qantas deal with Malaysia Airlines it is my turn to have a shot.
Maybe it’s looking at a Malaysian airline, not Malaysia Airlines. Maybe the play involves AirAsia, based in Kuala Lumpur, and involves AirAsia pursuing a reciprocal consolidation agenda by taking significant equity in Jetstar [...]
It’s merger fantasy silly season
December 24, 2008 – 7:32 am
When Macquarie Equities allows itself to be reported as saying Malaysia Airlines would be ‘a better fit’ for Qantas, and the general media breaks out in a sweat over a fictitious story in a Kuala Lumpur newspaper that Jetstar is discussing a merger with AirAsia it means that the silly season for Qantas merger fantasy [...]
Lufthansa & the Virgins, will they make love or war?
October 30, 2008 – 12:27 pm
An intensely interesting situation has arisen in Europe after Lufthansa assumed outright control of UK carrier bmi after chairman Sir Michael Bishop exercised a £318 million option to sell them his stake, lifting the German carrier’s equity to 80%.
Sir Richard Branson, who shares Virgin Atlantic 51:49 with the less than thrilled owners of Singapore Airlines, [...]
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