Jetstar confirms international aspirations
According to Jetstar CEO Alan Joyce, QANTAS will start flying its domestic discount carrier Jetstar on international routes to recover market share and fend off perceived threats from the likes of Singapore Airlines and Emirates.
“We are looking at international markets in terms of growth opportunities to longer-haul destinations,” he said. “So there’s big potential for us to recover share and big potential for us to grow.”
Jetstar will receive all its Airbus SAS A320 aircraft for its domestic fleet by mid-2006, Mr Joyce said.
For international flights it may buy either Airbus or Boeing planes.
Flying an all-Airbus fleet domestically will let Jetstar cut costs by eliminating the spare parts and extra training needed to run a mixed fleet.
“You have to have different size stairs to get people off the aircraft, you have to have different size equipment to get cargo out of the hulls,” Mr Joyce said. “That complexity goes when you have one aircraft type.”
Certainly this strategy sits very comfotably with Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon’s stated aims to slash $3 Billion from the airlines cost base.
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