Jetstar to establish long haul base in Cairns.
Following in the footsteps of carrier Australian Airlines, which wet leases the former Australian Airlines aircraft to the Qantas Group, Jetstar has announced that it is establishing a long-haul base in Cairns in an attempt to turnaround the decline in the Japanese market, while at the same time it has announced that it has received approval to codeshare with Japan Airlines for at least the next two years.
The codeshare is viewed as critical to Jetstar as it takes over Qantas on key routes to western Japan, with traffic between Australia and Japan having declined by 4% per in 2006, with JAL also slashing Australian services.
Qantas is also Qantas the former Australian Airlines Boeing 767 services to Nagoya and Osaka with Jetstar A330-200s, expecting to save $40 million a year and operating six direct services a week between Cairns and Nagoya, Sydney to Cairns and Nagoya twice a week from August 2 and four services a week between Cairns and Osaka from September 8, in addition to the Sydney to Brisbane and Osaka service which starts on on March 27.
Report by The Mole
John Alwyn-Jones
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