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BITRE figures just out for the financial year 2018-19 show that punctuality of our domestic airlines dropped, with more than one in four scheduled flights 15 minutes or more late, while cancellations across the domestic air network increased by almost 25 per cent, from 1.7 per cent to 2.1 per cent of timetabled flights.
QF, at 80.1 per cent of arrivals within 15 minutes of the timetable very narrowly pipped VA at 79.9 per cent. In racing parlance, that may be a 'nose' or a 'half head.'
QF's overall cancellation rate however was 2.4 per cent compared to VA's 2.0 per cent.
Melbourne - Sydney both ways flight cancellations were at an unacceptably high 6.4 per cent while Brisbane to Sydney was 3.5 and Sydney - Brisbane 3.4 per cent. These are the top two domestic routes with MEL - SYD - MEL way ahead of any other in passenger numbers.
When overseas recently, travelling on high speed rail, there were some trains five minutes apart (each carrying several times more than a B738 or A332) but no cancellations. Some of the QF and VA cancellations will have been when they schedule MEL - SYD flights at 15 minute intervals but while this may minimise the delay to passengers if they are lucky enough to be placed on the next one (assuming it operates!), unlike high speed rail, these airlines are not operating the published timetable.
It's time for an EU261-type domestic airlines compensation scheme in Oz as AFFer MEL_Traveller has suggested. Compounding the insult to travellers is that domestic air fares appear to be rising with QF and VA having ended the capacity wars. Both are trying to focus on yields, as odysseus discussed with me yesterday.
On the northbound ME:L - SYD route, 26.7 per cent of flights were more than 15 minutes late, an appalling performance, VA was best with 23.1 per cent and TT worst with 37.3 per cent of flights officially tardy. QF's cancellation rate northbound was 7.1 per cent of timetabled flights, while VA;s was 5.3 per cent. Overall, 1853 scheduled MEL - SYD northbounds did not run.
Suthbound (SYD - MEL) was even worse, despite an extra typial 10 minutes in the gate to gate timetables. 27.5 per cent of flights were more than 15 minutes late, while 6.4 per cent of all scheduled flights were cancelled. 25.6 per cent of QF's southbounds were officially late - more than one in four - while for VA, the percentage of 'late' flights was 25.1.
STD - BNE northbound was not much better time wise, with 22.4 per cent of overall flights officially tardy.
25.3 per cent of all flights into MEL arrived more than 15 minutes late. The figure for SYD was also poor, but a tad better at 23.7 per cent. Although BNE was the best of the majors at 18 per cent, that's still almost one in every four flights being officially tardy:
Overall a poor performance, even though it's in an environment where domestic passenger numbers have risen by far less than population growth as another metric showed yesterday.
QF, at 80.1 per cent of arrivals within 15 minutes of the timetable very narrowly pipped VA at 79.9 per cent. In racing parlance, that may be a 'nose' or a 'half head.'
QF's overall cancellation rate however was 2.4 per cent compared to VA's 2.0 per cent.
Melbourne - Sydney both ways flight cancellations were at an unacceptably high 6.4 per cent while Brisbane to Sydney was 3.5 and Sydney - Brisbane 3.4 per cent. These are the top two domestic routes with MEL - SYD - MEL way ahead of any other in passenger numbers.
When overseas recently, travelling on high speed rail, there were some trains five minutes apart (each carrying several times more than a B738 or A332) but no cancellations. Some of the QF and VA cancellations will have been when they schedule MEL - SYD flights at 15 minute intervals but while this may minimise the delay to passengers if they are lucky enough to be placed on the next one (assuming it operates!), unlike high speed rail, these airlines are not operating the published timetable.
It's time for an EU261-type domestic airlines compensation scheme in Oz as AFFer MEL_Traveller has suggested. Compounding the insult to travellers is that domestic air fares appear to be rising with QF and VA having ended the capacity wars. Both are trying to focus on yields, as odysseus discussed with me yesterday.
On the northbound ME:L - SYD route, 26.7 per cent of flights were more than 15 minutes late, an appalling performance, VA was best with 23.1 per cent and TT worst with 37.3 per cent of flights officially tardy. QF's cancellation rate northbound was 7.1 per cent of timetabled flights, while VA;s was 5.3 per cent. Overall, 1853 scheduled MEL - SYD northbounds did not run.
Suthbound (SYD - MEL) was even worse, despite an extra typial 10 minutes in the gate to gate timetables. 27.5 per cent of flights were more than 15 minutes late, while 6.4 per cent of all scheduled flights were cancelled. 25.6 per cent of QF's southbounds were officially late - more than one in four - while for VA, the percentage of 'late' flights was 25.1.
STD - BNE northbound was not much better time wise, with 22.4 per cent of overall flights officially tardy.
25.3 per cent of all flights into MEL arrived more than 15 minutes late. The figure for SYD was also poor, but a tad better at 23.7 per cent. Although BNE was the best of the majors at 18 per cent, that's still almost one in every four flights being officially tardy:
Overall a poor performance, even though it's in an environment where domestic passenger numbers have risen by far less than population growth as another metric showed yesterday.
