New T4 expansion at Tulla

[Standby]

New Tulla expansion with JQ to move in 2015...keep the bottom feeders (JQ/TT together)
Jetstar to move into new $400 million Melbourne Airport terminal

 

[cmon0005]

Hopefully they also put in a JQ lounge, to stop the crowding of the QP and J lounge.

 

[samh004]

Sucked in if you land at gates 41-53... that's one heck of a walk!

Perhaps this is a way to save cash for fuel, passengers will walk off the kilos getting to their gate. Then again, you'd work up a nice appetite too

Hopefully they also put in a JQ lounge, to stop the crowding of the QP and J lounge.

There wont be a need, have you considered the walk that would be involved getting from T1 to T4, especially if you were at the far gates. Plus the hassles of security as you'd need to be landside through T2. So I doubt you're going to see much value in QP access, but hopefully this will clear up some gates for QFLink in T1.

The shift to a bigger terminal space will give Jetstar the opportunity to expand its operations from Melbourne

I wonder if this means goodbye to Avalon?

 

[Bofter]

Hopefully they also put in a JQ lounge, to stop the crowding of the QP and J lounge.

The terminal plans show space designated for a lounge, but they don't say whose lounge.

 

[dk4]

Hopefully they also put in a JQ lounge, to stop the crowding of the QP and J lounge.

Jetstar has been systematically "enhancing" their airport lounge access over the last few years.

It started with Qantas Clubs no longer staying open until the last Group flight every day, rather only remaining open until the last QF metal flight of the day.
Then they got rid of their lounge at OOL - with the space transformed to a Qantas Club, and closing it well before the last Jetstar flights each day.
As a major JQ hub, DRW presents a situation where a substantial number of JQ departures aren't covered by the Qantas Club's opening hours at all.
And most recently the lounge was closed in SYD T2, meaning all JQ departures from that terminal are no longer serviced by a same terminal airside lounge.

Given this trend, one should not be expecting Jetstar to offer lounge access at MEL T4...

In fact, if anything IMO, punters should be expecting Qantas Group to "enhance" Jetstar lounge access right off the books, sooner rather than later.

 

[eastwest101]

Given this trend, one should not be expecting Jetstar to offer lounge access at MEL T4...

In fact, if anything IMO, punters should be expecting Qantas Group to "enhance" Jetstar lounge access right off the books, sooner rather than later.

Entirely correct there, I would also expect that in the future..... at best Qantas tolerate JQ passengers in their lounges and they would certainly not be encouraging more of it.

 

[samh004]

Jetstar has been systematically "enhancing" their airport lounge access over the last few years.

It started with Qantas Clubs no longer staying open until the last Group flight every day, rather only remaining open until the last QF metal flight of the day.
Then they got rid of their lounge at OOL - with the space transformed to a Qantas Club, and closing it well before the last Jetstar flights each day.
As a major JQ hub, DRW presents a situation where a substantial number of JQ departures aren't covered by the Qantas Club's opening hours at all.
And most recently the lounge was closed in SYD T2, meaning all JQ departures from that terminal are no longer serviced by a same terminal airside lounge.

The only thing I'd add to that timeline is that in between QP's closing earlier and the JQ lounge closing at OOL, they had a brief trial of a network of lounges, the others in AKL and WLG I recall, maybe CHC too? Those slowly closed too, or at least, their access to third party lounges there ended. So they did give it a small go, but never really seemed like they were taking it seriously, and when you don't take things seriously, you can't expect it to work out!

Given this trend, one should not be expecting Jetstar to offer lounge access at MEL T4...

In fact, if anything IMO, punters should be expecting Qantas Group to "enhance" Jetstar lounge access right off the books, sooner rather than later.

This doesn't bode well for those JQ35 (or any other number) runs.

Entirely correct there, I would also expect that in the future..... at best Qantas tolerate JQ passengers in their lounges and they would certainly not be encouraging more of it.

Trouble is, while they're not looking for loyalty among the passengers that use them, it is somewhat helpful, and their flights are offered at a discount to QFF members, so removing lounge access entirely for Jetstar wont help them. I'm sure as soon as they do VA will just open up access to Tiger pax to go one up too.

 

[pauly7]

I love the 'so called bag drop' quote.

Wonder if Jetstar will ditch the slow manual check in process with the new terminal?

Wish VA would put in next gen check in as well!