D7 withdrawing entirely from OOL-KUL?

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According to the MAVCOM (Malaysia IASC) releases for June 2024, D7 has returned their OOL-KUL route authorities back to MAVCOM. They were operating NW Seasonal for NW23/24 before ceasing at the end of March 2024.

At the moment there are flights for December 2024 to March 2025 loaded into the booking engine, but for how long/will it be zero-ed out?

May be moved to outright AAIF failure (alongside Scoot's OOL-SIN and VA's CNS-HND) if that's the case.

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Looks like there's no schedules filed for the NW resumption and it's not bookable on the AirAsia site now.

That leaves VA as having the only non-NZ international flight at OOL.
 
This will mean that OOL is left with only NZ as a foreign carrier serving them...from December it looks like even Canberra will have more foreign carriers than OOL....

It's a shame that their international flights have reduced in the past year given how impressive OOL's new terminal is. Hopefully this is only short-term.
 
Jetstar A321N OOL-SIN could be a contender?

Quite a market shift to have both AirAsia and Scoot once operating into OOL and now nothing. I remember the early days the flights had been quite popular.
 
Saab34 said:
Quite a market shift to have both AirAsia and Scoot once operating into OOL and now nothing. I remember the early days the flights had been quite popular.
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If it was purely market forces deciding what happens at OOL then there would be a decent amount of foreign airlines flying into OOL. Major changes in AAIF funding in the past two years has increased the amount of international flights and airlines into Brisbane at OOL’s expense. Makes OOL very unattractive compared to BNE.
 
Hopefully D7 will start flying from BNE in the next year or two. The market must be there especially with all the connections from KUL?
 
They don’t appear to have the aircraft, and are still awaiting for more A330s to come online, looks like only another two later this year. Then they start taking A321XLRs so I’d expect some of those to pop up locally. Perhaps a A321 will make its way to BNE, ADL, perhaps even NTL.

Looks like the focus is on China, India.
 
Might also depend on the Queensland Government elections in October, if the LNP get in it's possible the AAIF will be drawn back slightly and they won't be taking the current government's approach of (desperately) approaching any international airlines with AAIF cash in hand to draw them into Queensland.
 
This also means no widebody aircraft operated into the Gold Coast.

It leaves just CNS, BNE, SYD, MEL, ADL, PER with widebody aircraft.
 
It also means all the domestic flights are now able to use the facilities of the skybridge so that's a little win for those left behind.....
 
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hwy said:
It also means all the domestic flights are now able to use the facilities of the skybridge so that's a little win for those left behind.....
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Not quite, there are still 4-6 international flights per day to AKL, WLG, CHC, ZQN and DPS on NZ/JQ/VA which get priority to the airbridges. Outside of those times it appears that VA domestic flights get priority to use them.
 
OOL-DPS seems fairly low yield, not sure on how long that one will run, especially if aircraft are stretched, I often get emails advertising $400-$450 return OOL-DPS while BNE is at least $100-150 more.

Be good if they pulled Avalon into the regional bucket.
 
Fares are loaded at $8k return for Y and $15k for J.

Are these flights just charter/pre booked via Chinese tour companies, with no intention to sell to the public at reasonable pricing? I’ve seen this before with some other Chinese ‘scheduled flights’
 
Saab34 said:
Fares are loaded at $8k return for Y and $15k for J.

Are these flights just charter/pre booked via Chinese tour companies, with no intention to sell to the public at reasonable pricing? I’ve seen this before with some other Chinese ‘scheduled flights’
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Those are the prices for a Y class fare or a J class fare. I suspect some more reasonable pricing will come once they've properly set everything up.
 

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