Jetstar - plans to base more aircraft in NZ

[medhead]

A bit more of a drip feed of Jetstar's plans for the future with the A330s. It talks about NZ plans and also about plans for operations from SIN, which is the bit that interests me most.

Jetstar plans to base more wide-body Airbus A330 aircraft in NZ | The Australian

Mr Buchanan said the pan-Asia drive remained Jetstar's overarching strategy and he that indicated more A330s could be based in Singapore.

Jetstar was serving more and more destinations out of the city-state, and stationing the A330s there opened up the opportunity to establish long-haul routes that would create strength for short-haul operations both there and from Australia.

Singapore was proving "a good jumping-off spot" because it had a good cost base, an open regulatory environment and a strong revenue platform.

"If you look at the routes out of Singapore and on our short-haul network, 70 per cent of the revenue that's derived on our Singapore flights is from point-of-sale Singapore, so it's actually a much stronger place to build a brand," he said.

Jetstar continued to look at Athens and Rome as destinations from Singapore, but it was a question of timing and the benefits of strengthening connections in the existing network versus the ability to bring in traffic from another destination.

The airline remained focused on building connections in Asia with routes from Singapore to Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing the most likely.

 

[samh004]

What I’d like to know is if the a/c in NZ are capable of landing in fog yet, or if they still lose out to ANZ? If they do, that’s their priority, seeing as it’s winter again, not additional a/c that will just be grounded.

I thought at first the article was talking about basing A330’s in NZ, but it’s not.

With DJ presumable moving to compete directly with QF, I’d rather see JQ take DJ’s former role and offer starclass or something similar on domestic services. I don’t think they share the same vision though.

 

[dajop]

also about plans for operations from SIN, which is the bit that interests me most.

+1. Very interesting. On the ground (and my own opinion) the Jetstar brand is the better of the three of the LCCs operating out of SIN. Also likely to appeal for travel to/from Beijing & Shanghai, as the cheap fares, if you can get them at all, are usually on one of the Chinese carriers (often MU via CAN), and for a range of reasons they have limited appeal to many.

 

[ric_melb]

The headline in the Australian is not in synch with the copy!

Jetstar plan to base more aircraft in NZ, but not A330's which will be based in Singapore.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Also likely to appeal for travel to/from Beijing, as the cheap fares, if you can get them at all, are usually on one of the Chinese carriers (often MU via CAN), and for a range of reasons they have limited appeal to many.

What an articulate way of putting it

 

[markis10]

The headline in the Australian is not in synch with the copy!

Jetstar plan to base more aircraft in NZ, but not A330's which will be based in Singapore.

Jetstar are looking at putting two A330s in at AKL, I mentioned this recently in the DJ dear john thread, with SFO and YVR as the likely destinations for them:

"Later this year, Jetstar will base a 7th A320 aircraft in New Zealand with the flexibility to operate on domestic or international routes from its existing NZ ports.

A 7th positioned A320 will create around 50 new airline jobs for Jetstar’s NZ operations in Pilot, Cabin Crew, Engineering and Airport Customer Services areas, growing to beyond 300 jobs.

In addition, Jetstar is currently considering deployment of two-class A330-200 aircraft to support the launch of first time value based long haul Jetstar international services to New Zealand."

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Its not hard to see where they are coming from, I would expect JQ will take over the AKL-LAX-JFK run not too long after once they have an A330 crew base setup.