With the announcentment of Jetstars’ route structure Melbourne avalon well be used for direct flight from Brisbane and Sydney! Another interesting fact about this airline is that they have announced to launch flights from Brisbane to Hobart creating competition for Virgin Blue on the route! visit their website to find out more if you wish
By: Hamtech - 26th February 2004 at 11:58
For grahamskipton: The suburb north of Geelong is Lara, located there is an airport called Avalon.
Its had a few incarnations over the years, currently a heavy maintenance facility for Qantas under the banner of a labour hire firm called Forstaff.
Re the pending price war: People have to realise $29 airfares are not sustainable.
Its a war of attrition, either airline has no intention of continually offering up those fares.
Having made my career in aviation, this whole business price warring makes me sick.
– Hamtech.
By: grahamskipton - 26th February 2004 at 11:10
Hi Steve, just wondering if you could answer a question that’s baffled me for the last seven years.
When I lived in Australia, I stopped at a village just to the North of Geelong (vic). I can’t remember the frequency that it occured but quite regularly a Qantas 747 would circle around Geelong bay several times quite low. I know it wasnt landing at Tullamarine or anything but as I say, I had seen it circling round the bay. The only solution I could come up with is it that it is something to do with Avalon and they were testing or training pilots??
Thankyou in advance,
Graham
By: steve rowell - 26th February 2004 at 09:14
Jetstar, Qantas’s low-fare subsidiary, was launched in Australia yesterday with 100,000 seats on sale at A$29 ($22) on flights from Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne to popular Australian destinations.
The new airline, which Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon claims is the world’s lowest-cost carrier, initially will serve 10 east coast tourist destinations from Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. From May 25 it will serve such destinations as the Whitsundays, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Cairns and Tasmania.
“Jetstar will operate up to 88 flights per day–more than 600 per week–increasing up to 116 flights a day, or around 800 flights a week, by August,” Dixon said. “While our initial network includes 10 destinations, we plan to expand progressively from November with flights to Perth, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Darwin, Broome, Townsville and Adelaide.”
Jetstar will offer a range of new nonstops and the first services from Avalon Airport, which is just 19 km from Gellong, the gateway to Victoria’s Ocean Road beach area. The new nonstops include Avalon-Sydney, Avalon-Brisbane, Brisbane-Hobart and Newcastle-Melbourne.
For maximum simplicity, Jetstar is offering only two types of fares, Jet Flex and Jet Saver, both for one-way travel. The Jet Flex fares allow changes to be made up to 30 min. prior to departure through Jetstar telephone reservations for no fee, while Jet Saver fares allow time, date and name changes up to 24 hr. before departure for a fee.
The new airline started services with a fleet of 14 125-seat 717s in a single-class configuration. However, it will move to an all-A320 fleet with 177 seats by mid-2006. It has 23 A320s on order, the first of which will arrive in June.
By: Bmused55 - 26th February 2004 at 08:00
Well that can mean only one thing.
Even lower airfares!
As Virginblue say in one of their advertisements: “Bugger off for, bugger all.”
That will be even more true now LOL!
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