I see that 2800 passengers have had to be reimbursed or rebooked after Jetstar Japan cancelled 101 flights next week.
Is 28 seats sold per A320 less than two weeks before departure considered to be a bad thing?
I'm fascinated by the comment in the previous thread which argued that: A) Qantas International will not be given funds for long-haul twins, even the 789, and B) It must return to profit with a long-haul fleet of just A380 and 74E aircraft. I don't count the A330s as long-haul, given that they equat...
Jump to postI went to the 2010 edition in South Africa. The early stages actually went pretty well. But it all went wrong at the semi-final stage, when the pilots of FIFA bigwigs refused to park their aircraft where they were directed to, with the consequence that operations were suspended and passengers flying...
Jump to postI live in the area, and I visit Hawaii several times each year, but I don't fly Hawaiian. There are two reasons. Firstly, my primary frequent flyer program is Air <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym> and there is no earning on these flights. Secondly, my next frequent flyer program is Virgi...
Jump to postManchester's aviation future might be quite dependent on the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum. David Cameron made another disastrous intervention yesterday, telling the Scots that they should stay British because London is the jewel of the British Isles. It's significant because each ...
Jump to postI am still recovering from the spectacle of someone getting into an argument with Mariner about Frontier. FWIW, I have wondered in recent years whether <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym> should have looked at buying 788s, configuring them 15J / 21U / 180Y and flying them to Seattle, San D...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/VA82" class="quote" target="_blank">VA82</a> (<a href="#158" class="quote">Reply 158</a>):<br/><i>Having a bit of a look around with Scoot out o...
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Jump to postThe idea of a major airport at Toowoomba has been absurd from the start.
But Australia is full of these absurd pork barrel projects. My kids play soccer at a ground on Mount Tamborine a couple of times a year which is a pure pork barrel edifice.
[Edited 2014-05-15 02:25:45]
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/RyanairGuru" class="quote" target="_blank">RyanairGuru</a> (<a href="#122" class="quote">Reply 122</a>):<br/><i>The A380 is the right aircraft f...
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Jump to postI grew up in Britain and I've been to St Maarten. And the simple answer is that there is ZERO demand. It's not just a matter of language or culture or colonial links, because British leisure tourists visit Mauritius and Seychelles (which are almost more French than British) and countless Greek and T...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/777Jet" class="quote" target="_blank">777Jet</a> (<a href="#54" class="quote">Reply 54</a>):<br/><i>I just searched for <acronym title="Sydney -...
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Jump to postIt all makes sense to me. My wife recently flew a mixed long-haul itinerary with Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines, several years after she last flew on either. She reported that <acronym title="Singapore Airlines">SQ</acronym>'s product has now been downgraded to the point where it was marginally in...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Mr+airnZ" class="quote" target="_blank">Mr airnZ</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>I suggest you jump on a <acronym title="...
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Jump to postI've learned two things from this thread: 1) Continental took over United but got dragged down to United's level, 2) Some American passengers still don't see that excessively generous upgrading policies are the cause of their lousy First Class products, and get upset when foreign carriers with premi...
Jump to postTwo things.
Continental Micronesia's network was always based on:
A) very high yields for some very short sectors, and
B) lots of freight in the belly.
I don't know whether that has changed.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/xiaotung" class="quote" target="_blank">xiaotung</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>And now I believe <acronym title="Shanghai...
Jump to postIn the last thread it was revealed for the first time that, as suspected, Air New Zealand's China services have lost $100 million in 6 years. I wrote that long-haul inbound low-yield leisure travel is a very risky market to try to profit from without any serious prospect of growing outbound or highe...
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Jump to postThis is Air New Zealand's 2-2-2 777-300ER Premium Economy product....... <center><table align="center" border="0" width="472" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><a href="/uf/view.file?id=31810&filename=php2oQwA9.jpeg" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/uf/31810/php2oQwA9...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/xiaotung" class="quote" target="_blank">xiaotung</a> (<a href="#208" class="quote">Reply 208</a>):<br/><i>Pacific Rim is what they have been say...
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Jump to postIt's been obvious for years that the China market is a basket-case for Air New Zealand. Volumes are okay at the back of the plane but yields are down the toilet and always will be for what is a little-known bottom-end-of-the-market destination for Chinese people, which actually tops up its yields wi...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jfk777" class="quote" target="_blank">jfk777</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>Hawaii has become the "burnoff the frequent fl...
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Jump to postThe problem is yield. From Honolulu they can fly to Melbourne in Australia or Christchurch in New Zealand which are the same distance as the East Coast, but offer much more high-yielding tickets from visitors who get much more paid vacation time each year than Americans do. Most Australians get eith...
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Jump to postThis thread is less absurd than it might at first appear. The problem is that the US aviation industry is completely dysfunctional at the legacy end, and its executives are clones who are completely unfit for their duties. To list just a few of the problems which make long-term profitability of any ...
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