I get the impression that folks in PER aren't always impressed with the service they get from QF - i wonder whether JB is specifically targeting this?
IMHO, I haven't seen this impression myself.
Being based in PER and having experienced both carriers, give me QF any day of the week and twice on Sunday compared to the abysmal DJ service here. I've not seen anything to date specially here in PER that would convince me to give DJ, even under Borghetti, a second chance to earn my business and trust.
ISTR something about the terminals being rearranged and as part of the deal DJ will move ALL flights to what is currently the international terminal. Perhaps this is all part of the renewed focus on PER.
That was the plan, but a major sticking point of the move was that the temporary facility for thia (Terminal WA) had no airbridges. That is where the deal came unstuck, and I've not read anything since which demonstrates either a change in DJ's posture on the airbridge issue, or the addition of them to the terminal design.
I'm just glad they have a bus that connects the two terminals now (and it doesn't use the highway).
They've had a terminal connection bus for the better part of 5yrs+, and it has never used the highway for as long as I can remember.
The bus had until recently used airside roads, which have since been converted to public roads to make inter-terminal journeys easy for all.
The QF T1 QP, I also here, is equally an embarrassment.
I disagree. The T1 QP lounge was upgraded during 2008, completed in Q1 09. The lounge has decor, fittings and fixtures on par with virtually all INT J lounges on the network.
Size is a downside, seating around 80-100 pax after the upgrade, and that is simply because of the terminal size and lack of room to expand the floorplate on account of just how much EK has taken up there. Food service is Ok, and is no worse than a DOM QP.
Was DJ being offered to move to the new Terminal WA? Where was this going to be situated? And I wonder if QF would move JQ there? Naturally, it's not an attractive option for DJ if aerobridges are a necessity, let alone a lounge.
Yes they (DJ) were offered a move, but lack of airbridges was a major sticking point (see earlier comment). QF/JQ have never been slated to move there, and their plan was to stay at T2 until a complete consolidated DOM/INT operation came online. There was QF press release on this last year.
I believe Virgin will be moving around 2013 to the new terminal.
bwhahahahaha. That's a good one.
It's late 2010 now, and there's already a shortage of qualified contractors for construction projects in PER, plus they have work coming out of their ears.
While site works and the apron may have been done, I don't see how the Terminal WA complex could be constructed and running before EOY 2013, not withstanding the complex tendering and design processes that would need to be completed before the first trench was dug.
The J lounge was considered, but I believe space was an issue. Perhaps when DJ vacates the common user terminal.
Space isn't an issue for QF in PER at all. If they really wanted to construct the J lounge to tide them over until the consolidated terminal envisaged in the 2024 Master Plan is constructed, all that was needed is to extend the floor plate over the old outdoor garden between T2 & T3.
They've already managed to put a link corridor between the two terminals, and new administration space amongst other things in there. The QP upgrade demonstrates that there is a more than viable method of floorplate extension at their disposal that won't compromise terminal operations.
