Jetstar announces MCY-DPS-SIN

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Analytic flying did some interesting commentary on this on X/Twitter.

The bilateral (Au-Indo) is fully allocated, so this was a way to add DPS capacity and likely get a Qld subsidy at the same time. A bit like QR adding more MEL capacity by routing via ADL……

Apparently JQ have filled 99% of the additional ~115,000 seats they added to DPS so room for more!

The SIN 5th freedom tags for both NTL and MCY likely made it eligible for State Government Aviation Fund Subsidies in both NSW and QLD arguing the SIN hub will bring inbound tourists as opposed to a DPS terminator which would've made it not eligible in the majority of cases.

The previous Regional Qld-DPS services (with the exception of the shortlived Indonesia AirAsia CNS-DPS) were not eligible for Qld subsidies as they were considered outbound services (i.e taxpayers funding Holidaymakers (or Bogans) brought little to no financial benefit).

The Indonesia AirAsia exception (and similarly JQ's initial NTL-DPS terminators) were attempts by the Qld and NSW Governments to bring "Indonesian Tourists" into those regions of those states, which obviously didn't work out.