Aussie_ From Australia, joined Dec 2000, 1765 posts, RR: 5 Posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 2143 times:
Hi all
some of you may have read a previous post asking why all J* Asia flights to Bangalore were only on sale at the full fare price from January. This is part of a grander scheme I have of going low-cost narrowbody from Australia to Europe.
Well it appears the one link from SE Asia to the subcontinent is gone, because a routine check today fails to find any flights at all on the route from early January onwards. Has this sector got the cut??
Are there plans by any other LCCs from SE Asia or India/Sri lanka thinking of starting flights between the two areas?
BlrBird From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 577 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 2077 times:
Quoting Aussie_ (Thread starter): Well it appears the one link from SE Asia to the subcontinent is gone, because a routine check today fails to find any flights at all on the route from early January onwards. Has this sector got the cut??
No, they have reduced the freq 5x pw to 3x(M.W..S.) pw and added another 3x pw to BKK with this SIN-BKK sector will have 3 daily flights any day of the week.
But I do wonder how long they will continue with SIN-BLR route though.
Nimish From India, joined Feb 2005, 3076 posts, RR: 9 Reply 3, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1854 times:
This goes to show (to me at least) how complex the airline business is! SQ with their 772/773 service at high fares often goes full on SIN-BLR. At the same time 3K with their 320s and low fares are finding it tough to make money on this sector (or think they can make more money on the SIN-BKK sector)!
Sshank From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 287 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 1703 times:
No, all this shows is that the demand for BLR - SIN is fairly limited and does not warrant a third flight.
Quoting Nimish (Reply 3): This goes to show (to me at least) how complex the airline business is! SQ with their 772/773 service at high fares often goes full on SIN-BLR. At the same time 3K with their 320s and low fares are finding it tough to make money on this sector (or think they can make more money on the SIN-BKK sector)!
Ex_SQer From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 1435 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1615 times:
Quoting Nimish (Reply 3): This goes to show (to me at least) how complex the airline business is! SQ with their 772/773 service at high fares often goes full on SIN-BLR. At the same time 3K with their 320s and low fares are finding it tough to make money on this sector
Quoting Sshank (Reply 4): No, all this shows is that the demand for BLR - SIN is fairly limited and does not warrant a third flight.
Both of you are right. Demand on this route is driven more by connecting traffic than O&D. Jetstar's flights (especially westbound) are not well-timed for connections, whereas SQ's are, especially on the eastbound sector. However the nature of the Indian market is also quite unique. Despite its generally higher fares, SQ can attract higher loads than the competition because a fair number of people will pay more and longer routing just so that they can claim to fly SQ. This to some extent explains why SQ enjoys higher loads on its India services despite the presence of low cost carriers.
Nimish From India, joined Feb 2005, 3076 posts, RR: 9 Reply 7, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1593 times:
Quoting Ex_SQer (Reply 6): Despite its generally higher fares, SQ can attract higher loads than the competition because a fair number of people will pay more and longer routing just so that they can claim to fly SQ
Not "claim to fly SQ", but because a lot of people actually enjoy the flight on SQ. I certainly do, and don't mind the long layover on the return to India, because of the great service on board.
BlrBird From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 577 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1557 times:
3k did request BLR airport for different time slots don't know the out come (guess it was denied).
May be 3K can get more traction once they start code sharing with JQ and Qantas.
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