PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11139 posts, RR: 63 Posted (6 years 3 months 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 2117 times:
Well as if a return to Hong Kong for well under £300 wasn't good enough, if you are a student and have proof (such as a Student Union Card) then you can now fly there for half price on all economy fares! Even adding the taxes in, that comes to just £195, flights have to be booked through STA Travel in the UK, and you have to present your proof of being a student upon check in. But what a deal!
Also, they have a 'kid's fly free' offer on at the moment when flying with an adult, again excellent marketing resulting in some equally good deals for us consumers Must book before the 28th October and fly before the 25th October, I think I'll be taking a trip for sure now!
Rdwootty From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2005, 900 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (6 years 3 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2022 times:
Sounds like the "Death Rattle" of a desperate airline that cannot fill seats on a prime route. Maybe the travellers are wary of a possible problem in the future?
CPH757 From Denmark, joined Sep 2005, 684 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (6 years 3 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2001 times:
The student offering can actually also be booked on Oasis Hong Kongs own homepage.
I flew them a couple of weeks ago, and the aircraft was indeed not full, around 40% load in Y. Let's hope this extra offer can fill some more seats for the next half year, while the airline is getting known out there. It would be a shame with a collapse for this great product.
As BA alone is sending 3x744 from HKG to LHR around the same time as O8 take off, one could hope that there are room for an LCC carrier on this route.
Last flight: SAW-CPH on H9 on 02/11/09 - Next Flights: 23/12/09 CPH-AAL on QI, 30/12/09 CPH-LHR on SK, 19/01/10 CPH-CDG-
LGW From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (6 years 3 months 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 1799 times:
What is the awareness and opinion of Oasis of people in Hong Kong? There has been little marketing from what I have seen amny many people I know have either never heard of Oasis Hong Kong or know hardly anything about them, and even the ones that do are wary of flying such a new unknown airline.
Hope it works out for them but I worry with all their offers and their bold expansion plans.
I think generally they have been getting some quite good loads and a few trip report have appeared on this site, over Christmas some friends of mine looked at going home to HK to see family but even Oasis were charging about £600rtn, so that gives an indication that the flights were fairly full. Plus this latest deal is clever, there is very a large amount of HK students studying in UK Universities, so aiming it right at them and including the major travelling times for those students going home and then returning again next academic year (June/July and then September/October) will give them exposure to the market they are aiming for.
Quoting YLWbased (Reply 3): i already metioned in the Hong Kong Aviation Thread, please refer
Unfortunately not everybody is going to look in there
Jacobin777 From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 14968 posts, RR: 61 Reply 8, posted (6 years 3 months 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1556 times:
Quoting Rdwootty (Reply 1): Sounds like the "Death Rattle" of a desperate airline that cannot fill seats on a prime route. Maybe the travellers are wary of a possible problem in the future?
.....while loads doesn't = profitability, their loads have been rather good and they are working on starting services to other cities such as OAK, ORD (they are waiting for approval....
they started services only 4-5 months ago..lets give them more time before calling them a failure...
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