We almost always fly to and from Avalon, it’s a lot easier parking wise but the airport itself isn’t great, but I also live in regional Victoria so it’s easier to get too. Jetstar just does around 4 flights from there daily, most of them look pretty busy.
I love the fact you can be off the plane and into the car at Avalon in like 3/4 minutes if you don’t have bags.
It often takes me an hour from exiting aircraft door, to exiting long term car park at Tulla
Me once with Virgin.
A few years back, my Newcastle to Melbourne flight got cancelled, they put us on a bus to Sydney and flew us to MEL from there.
So all being on one bus (<50 people) tells me the flight would have been more than half empty.
They gave me back the fare in full on credit for another flight.
Looking at Rex, I think I preferred Tiger, it sucks they are gone because it really felt like they were getting it all together
I used Tiger quite a bit until they got those Boeing 737s and they were old and always late. Like 2/3/4 hours late. I would normally go for the flights on the Airbus!
I guess Rex won’t become a budget airline due to having a regional service business that is not budget. Would be a strange sort of duo.
We need Scoot domestic.
I flew tiger once. the service was so bad, i never went back.
I was on the last MEL - BNE flight which was cancelled. they refused a hotel room so i ended up paying $300 out of pocket for a room at MEL airport, along with food and other expenses, including missing a day of work. I was told i would be re-imbursed by tiger. i was not, despite multiple requests and at one point i was close to loging a small claim in the court but it was not worth it.
My choice for LCC is jetstar. Ive flown a number of times, including a family trip to NZ.
I flew down to Mel for a mates wedding and my flight home was cancelled. Not only did J* put me in a hotel, they provided a room credit for room service and even honored my upgrade to an extra legroom seat.
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This has happened with every airline under the sun. I must be lucky because I fly at least 12 times on a normal year and I have not once had an issue with Tiger, Jetstar on Virgin. (Qantas is too expensive)
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in a normal year i’ll take at a minimum 50 flights a year. I normally fly Qantas (as work covers the cost)
The issue is not delays. it’s not cancellations. its how the airlines deal with it when issues happen. when you fly as much as i do, delays and cancellations are inevitable.
Ive had flights cancelled on most carriers - as i said above J* have given me a room, the only downside was 3 people rebooking an entire flight. Qantas have also given me a room. its tiger that basically said “stiff bikkies”
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I’ll give it to years end before they pack up this pipe dream.
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While the travel bubble remains open for all other Australian states, New Zealand has hit pause on NSW flights until Sunday May 9.
“I have made the decision to pause flight from New South Wales for a period of 48 hours,” New Zealand coronavirus response minister Chris Hipkins announced to the media this afternoon. “That will come into effect at 11:59pm tonight (NZ time)”
“We will keep that under constant review during that time,” he added.
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It will allow the airport to cater for larger international aircraft, including Boeing 787s and Airbus A330s.
These aircraft carry in excess of 250 passengers and significant freight loads, and can undertake long-haul flights into North Asia, the Middle East and the US.
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Though I don’t like my chances of this making a big difference to tourism in my region.
We sometimes struggle to fill flights to/ from Melbourne, Singapore seems a bit optimistic.
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The runway expansion will allow for longer flights from cities like Cairns, Adelaide and Perth, avoiding the four-hour trip (by road or rail) between Newcastle and Sydney Airport.
It’s 2.5-3 hours tops from the Newcastle CBD to SYD, not four. And even less for the vast majority of the catchment of NTL which lives south of Newcastle itself.
That said, anything that helps draw people away from coming into Sydney is a good thing. We could end up with quite a comprehensive airport network with the of the investment going on - Mascot in the east and Badgerys Creek in the west plus Newcastle to the north and Canberra to the south.
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Yes, I think what this is REALLY about is having a back up plan for when such planes can’t fly into Sydney for whatever reason eg emergencies.
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Qantas also announced two new domestic routes, including QantasLink flights from Adelaide to Gold Coast and from Canberra to Darwin, using Embraer 190s leased from Alliance Airlines. Additional services from Adelaide to Sydney and Melbourne will also be added to schedules across both Qantas and Jetstar. QantasLink will also resume flying between Melbourne and Burnie after a 15-year break.
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