100% agree with the above post. I just cant see Tiger waiting around 5 years to operate out of Bansktown/Richmond or a so called "secondary airport", its too long and there is demand there waiting....The cheapest everyday fare into Tulla is about $115 on DJ, and if Tiger responds with say..$50, well then I would imagine JQ losing a fair few AVV pax, and DJ possibly losing some pax. Although they need to have planes to do this Sydney run, something that wont be available to Jan/Feb09 sometime. The thing is, they wont low airport costs to produce low fares, but even if they are charging $70 for the Sydney run, they
should still fill those A320's. But the problems with Sydney (YSSY) for Tiger is:
-Longer Turnaround times
-Possible Holding Pattern time
-Long Taxi time
-Possibility of traffic congestion
-Higher costs (Dosn't DRW and ADL also though??)
On the flip side:
-Not really a low-cost competitor to fight against from Tulla
-Demand is there for Low-Cost-Fares
-Convienience of Sydney Airport rather than some basin airport..
Before they started in 2007, they handed back their already gained Sydney Slots in October and decided to go to NTL which bombed. So the fact they they possibly made the Sydney route possibly might mean we might see Sydney up soon. I wouldn't be suprised if Sydney is online before March 2009. There is a new A320 coming online soon, and all its "proposed" sector increases have been scrapped from the schedules with nothing currently in place.
Now they are advertising "$5 + taxes" on their site. Smells of desperation. I hear from sources
at Adelaide airport that Tiger's loads are shocking
Mate, ADL runs are horrendous. They have already axed the proposed "6 Daily" MEL-ADL-MEL runs, and now its down to 2/3daily. My eyes were bursting out of my face when they announced the 6daily. Now, who made this decision??? Friday nights are chockers though, Tuesday mornings are bare. Sad to see, but the best load I have experienced on MEL-ADL on Tues/Wed is about 45 pax
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Melbourne Mornings to Canberra - not sure, as midweek is grim.
Mornings are averaging about 50/60% and evenings both ways are just full again. The morning service has been changed in future schedules to a Late Afternoon and evening service made later in the evening.
why people are NOT flying with them, and fix it
Lack of advertising did this, nobody knew about them or where they flew, but now things have changed. I remeber sitting in the Virgin lounge once waiting for a flight, and when a TT320 went by, people were like "Who's that airline" and " I thinks itsone of those freight airline's":shock::shock:.
Of course, Tuesday/Wednesday is often quiet among the whole network for most airlines in Oz...