I always thought that companies must book the red e-deal seats, despite assurances from a couple of people who do the bookings for employees that they only book the flexible fares. The red e-deal seats should be left for residents who need to travel to Perth and back, and who pay for their own airfares.
Yeah some of the smaller companies who book directly use Red E Deals, hence why it can cost $700 to get PER-KTA or vice versa!
Company's should be booking flexible fares....no excuse. Major all book fully flexibly Y fares.
My thoughts exactly. They should, under no circumstances, be allowed to book anything but a full fare seat. Not just mining companies or labour hire companies but any company booking seats for employees.
I've already expressed my disgust about the cost of fares in another post.
It's a free market, nothing can be done about it. What if l do freelance work as a sole trader and purchase the tickets through my own company. Should I also be penalised?
People (companies) can book whatever they want.
Not only that, as l have said previously, when Woodside book tickets for workers, the ticket books as a "Red Edeal", cost wise, but books into full Y.
I even did some hypotheticals;
Lets say BHP has workers flying Perth -> Newman, but could be any number of out-back towns. Lets say that the morning and afternoon flights are heavy with BHP workers, both ways.
Plane is a 738, 156 Y, 12 J. BHP has 40 workers, each way, 2 flights, ticket is $130.
40 (workers) x 2 (flights) x 2 (2 returns) x 130 (ticket) = $20,800 per day.
Thats a lot of money. Will Hi-Viz still be in the lounges throughout the QF network, IMO, yes.