Bali flights ex BNE/MEL & DPS

[albatross710]

For my recent trip I was watching the performance of JQ57 & JQ58 for my BNE-DPS-BNE travels. They would usually operate about an hour late and then once in ten days run 6 hours late or not at all. So we packed lots of books and a good attitude when we headed to the airports.

The JQ 787 aircraft mostly operate in the following cycle.

JQ 35 MEL - DPS
JQ 36 DEP - MEL
JQ 43 MEL - DPS
JQ 58 DPS - BNE
JQ 57 BNE - DPS
JQ 44 DPS - MEL
repeat

Our return on JQ 58 is directly related to the arrival performance of JQ43. Over the days I could see that even when JQ43 left melbourne late Jetstar would not update the JQ58 times until some time later. The day prior to our return JQ43 was 3 hours late which pushed JQ 58 to 6 hours late.

So after all this monitoring...my JQ58 departed on time and arrived in Brisbane 25 minutes early. Bags on time in both directions.

One big hooray for JQ & our $239 return fares.

 

[henrus]

So after all this monitoring...my JQ58 departed on time and arrived in Brisbane 25 minutes early. Bags on time in both directions.

Hmmm... how dare you give positive feedback (just kidding).

It's good to know and yes BNE-DPS / DPS-BNE performance has been terrible. A part of me wonders if this is on purpose (ie easy ability to move those impacted to other flights)?

 

[albatross710]

Hmmm... how dare you give positive feedback (just kidding).

It's good to know and yes BNE-DPS / DPS-BNE performance has been terrible. A part of me wonders if this is on purpose (ie easy ability to move those impacted to other flights)?

From what I could see performance out of Bali is mostly/only determined by the timely performance of the Au originating flight.

From BNE Int, DPS is the only JQ flight.