3K increases SIN BKK services

[markis10]

Jetstar Asia adds eight new weekly services to Bangkok from Singapore
• Jetstar Asia to operate up to five services a day to meet increasing leisure and business demand
• New capacity takes Jetstar Group flights to Thailand to over 100 weekly Jetstar Asia is adding eight additional services to its weekly schedule between Singapore and Bangkok from 8 July to cater for increasing demand from leisure and business travellers.
The new services will see Jetstar Asia fly up to five times daily to the capital of the Land of Smiles, adding over 2800 seats of new capacity each week between the two popular gateways in Southeast Asia.
Jetstar Asia Chief Executive Officer Barathan Pasupathi said that Bangkok, and Thailand more broadly, continued to be one of the biggest markets for Jetstar in their Southeast Asian network.
“We are adding capacity to Bangkok to meet ongoing strong demand from both the leisure market and an increasing number of business travellers attracted to our low fares and our expanding schedule,” Mr Pasupathi said.
“Last year alone we welcomed 30 per cent more people on this route than in 2011 with more than two million passengers carried.”
“With our new offering of up to five services a day, we can give more choices and better connection times to even more leisure travellers not just from Singapore but transiting through our Singapore hub on other Jetstar services,” Mr Pasupathi said.
With the new services, the Jetstar Group will operate 106 flights a week to Thailand with services from Singapore and Sydney to coughet and services from Melbourne and Singapore to Bangkok
One-way Economy Starter fares from Singapore to Bangkok start from SGD$114 or THB2699.

 

[Awesom Andy]

Looks like it lost one of the HKG flights though.

 

[docjames]

So basically one extra return flight per day (5/day instead of 4). Which day gets two extra flights?

I'd have thought with the million A320s coming they wouldn't need to drop HKG to allow this?

 

[Awesom Andy]

I'd have thought with the million A320s coming they wouldn't need to drop HKG to allow this?

I suppose not too many people want to go for the 6.30am (aka OMG-o'clock) flight, especially when the next one is at 10am, and a bunch of other airlines give options such as 7am, 8am, etc.

 

[dajop]

The patterns seems to be:

3xdaily Fri, Sun
4xdaily Tue, Sat
5xdaily Mon, Wed, Thu

Curiously the days I find most expensive to get SIN-BKK return (on any carrier) are Fri night out, Sun night back (which is also reflected in Jetstar's month long fare graph). But no extra services on those days.

 

[AIRwin]

I'd have thought with the million A320s coming they wouldn't need to drop HKG to allow this?

Perhaps Jetstar Hong Kong will pick this up (when and if they start flying)?

 

[Awesom Andy]

Curiously the days I find most expensive to get SIN-BKK return (on any carrier) are Fri night out, Sun night back (which is also reflected in Jetstar's month long fare graph). But no extra services on those days.

That's the SIN crowd going for a weekend away. Similar patterns occur across pretty much its entire network.

 

[jetlagger]

That's the SIN crowd going for a weekend away.

Some people told me about this SIN city somewhere in Thailand..

 

[dajop]

That's the SIN crowd going for a weekend away. Similar patterns occur across pretty much its entire network.

Yeah I realised that, I'm one of that crowd too when I feel the need, the curiosity was why they didn't add extra flights to match the extra demand on Fri and Sun, I guess the yields for the weekend crowd must be higher on a different route. I am guessing somewhere like HKT.

 

[Awesom Andy]

Yeah I realised that, I'm one of that crowd too when I feel the need, the curiosity was why they didn't add extra flights to match the extra demand on Fri and Sun, I guess the yields for the weekend crowd must be higher on a different route. I am guessing somewhere like HKT.

I don't think there are many who do the other way, so you only get good yield for one-way, and and empty plane coming back. At least during weekdays, you can take a bit of cargo along in the belly to fill up space/weight.

 

[banger2]

For the SIN city destination in Thailand BKK is much more appropriate an entry point than HKT. IMO foreigners are more likely to be hopping off to SIN in Thailand than locals in SIN (expats excluded)