Expansion of VA international services

[gwilli1]

The main one that will come out in the near future is SIN. JB mentioned that the airlines mentality is to fly to the hubs of its partners and then punt pax on to them.

I understand your reasoning , but have my doubts with SIN mainly because its fairly saturated already and they already have a partner in SIA that covers most Australian ports. I don't think VA has much to gain by flying to SIN.

 

[Jamesl]

All you need is for EY to drop their service to BNE to get a starting point. Then you can punt pax on to EY out of SIN and to SQ. I'm sure SQ would be happy to drop their A333 on the SYD run and like wise for MEL. PER would be a good idea to.

 

[dajop]

I'm sure SQ would be happy to drop their A333 on the SYD run and like wise for MEL.

Really? Happy to drop their A333 service to MEL, that only started today. It's not the SQ long haul product but it is ideally suited to the rotation it has, ie. it is not flying overnight in either direction.

 

[docjames]

Thinking of the 10 largest cities and potential pax.

Would their A330s have the legs for SYD,MEL,BNE - BOM?

Wouldn't think they'd reach DEL.

Beijing? Jakarta? Shanghai?

Tokyo? Osaka? Manila? You'd think all would be a possibility (deal with ANA in Japan for connections).

All in the top 10 by city size.

Karachi is the other top 10 but I don't see a market ex-Aus, and doubt the 330 would have the legs from SYD/MEL?

Other options?

HKG (link with VS - do a deal with VS although aren't VS on record that their SYD connection is performing well and thus unlikely to give it up, plus who handles intra-asia connections?)
BKK (you'd think they'd struggle price/cost vs TG).
Vietnam (huge community in Aus, not sure how much business traffic there is??)
CMB (same issues)


Every option has significant limitations. Unless they have a deal for onward carriage, it's hard to see steady profits in any of these destinations....