Ben175 From Australia, joined Jul 2008, 569 posts, RR: 0 Posted (4 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 965 times:
Proving that a low cost long haul airline can be a success, could we see airlines such as Tiger, Jetstar Asia or Lion start widebody services? They could follow D7 and fly to less costly/congested airports.
Tiger has the potential to link China, Japan, Eastern Australia and the Middle East with Singapore (and not canibilise into SQ's operation if they choose airports such as SHJ over DXB, OOL over BNE and TSN over PEK)
Jetstar Asia could do the same thing with a couple of JQ Australia's 787's on order.
Pe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 18826 posts, RR: 54 Reply 1, posted (4 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 951 times:
In addition to operational considerations, such as shorter turnarounds - D7 has a 75-minute turnaround at STN - compared to incumbents, there are further requirements including:
1) According to D7's CEO at conferences and in articles, the ability for customers to self-connect - there are no formal connections - elsewhere is essential. Indeed, he believes that D7 would not be successful but for AK having such a large network from KUL.
2) To operate routes that do, of course, have sufficient potential but either don't already exist or have little competition.
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