Although it is not, as claimed, the first ever scheduled jet service between Australia and the very fine Indonesian island of Lombok, Jetstar will operate the route four times weekly from September from Perth.
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Airlineratings.com has some explaining to do
There is much to anticipate from today’s launch of Airline Ratings.com but there are some important questions to ask as well. Among them, why Air France and Jetstar have both received the highest order of safety rating, 7/7, placing them on the same level as Qantas, Virgin Australia and Air New Zealand and about 141 [...]
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Jetstar copies Tiger, charges $$ to get low fare offers
In what traditional media might find an alarming development, Jetstar has embraced the switch from paid ads that go out to everyone whether a traveller or not, to a paid subscription to get speedy access to special offers of low fares.
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Jetstar’s 787s will compete with Qantas domestic for a while
The first of three Jetstar 787-8s to be delivered by year’s end will briefly compete for domestic passengers with Qantas mainline-and of course Virgin Australia and Tiger services-during a shakedown period starting sometime in November.
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Jetstar coming under pincer attack from AirAsia X, Scoot
A stock market disclosure that AirAsia X is bringing forward its Australia expansion plans poses a much sharper attack on the Jetstar franchise in Asia than a mere doubling of capacity to Sydney and Melbourne sooner than originally expected.
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Jetstar slashes Singapore flights, but is it a wider problem?
Jetstar seems to be caught up in a lack of interest in the low cost carrier format for longer haul flights just as it prepares to take the first of its much delayed wide bodied 787 Dreamliners
READ MOREQantas-Emirates? T minus 5 days and counting
Today’s ACCC authorisation of broad ranging co-operation between Jetstar franchises in Asia, including the Jetstar Hong Kong venture that has yet to gets its own authorisation in the Special Administrative Region of China, might be the curtain raiser to final approval for the Qantas-Emirates business partnership due to begin this Sunday. Or it might not.
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Tiger Airways Virgin delay. Does it really matter?
The survival of Tiger isn’t all that important. It is a failing enterprise, and Virgin Australia has a successful single brand strategy with which it has met, in one form or another, the combination of Qantas and Jetstar since 2004.
READ MORETiger, dead or alive, poses burning questions about where air travel is headed
There is much uncertainty about where the low fare airline case is headed in Australia even though it is closing in on nine years since Jetstar started services as its first such carrier. Will the ACCC approve Virgin Australia taking control of Tiger? Does Virgin Australia hope it doesn’t? Might the ACCC approve it and [...]
READ MOREQantas (Jetstar) first 787 still due in August, but …
The disclosure by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce that it would take delivery of its first Boeing 787-8 for Jetstar this August is being misreported as Qantas pressing on regardless. There is zero possibility that Qantas would do this without the jet being assessed as safe to resume flight, indeed, it wouldn’t even be able to [...]
READ MOREQantas drops Jetstar code shares on domestic flights
Qantas purged Jetstar code shares from its domestic flights booking site today, only a few days after it began applying Emirates code shares to its international booking site. Rumours, and half baked explanations abound.
READ MOREDreamliner: What will delays really mean to QF/JQ?
The 787 delays are arguably useful for Qantas and Jetstar in the short term, but a real headache if they disrupt fleet planning later into the decade.
READ MOREJetstar’s single 787 cut is about the business not the jet
The news that Qantas has cut one firm 787 order from the 15 that Jetstar is due to receive starting mid year has nothing to do with the Dreamliner’s current grounding. It is all to do with whether or not the Jetstar model for long haul flight is a success or a dud.
READ MOREJetstar doubts fuelled by poor Singapore profit figures
This glaring absence of Asia network at full service fare levels in the Qantas offerings is not something that the partnership with Emirates can ever fix. There is no doubt that Emirates can take over some of the Qantas business flying between Australia cities and Asia, but it can’t provide Qantas with alternatives to a Silk Air or a Dragonair.
READ MOREQantas safety ‘list’ story is also about Fairfax’s decline
If Fairfax is prepared to give top of site billing to the rankings done by the tiny Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre based in Hamburg without telling its readers exactly how Finnair ended up on top, and Virgin trumped Qantas, and so forth, it is making itself a party to something very odd to say the least.
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