QF confirms removal of PE to SIN

[moa999]

Scoot and AirAsia are ripping the yield out of the SEA market

 

[JohnK]

Scoot and AirAsia are ripping the yield out of the SEA market

There are still people out there who are prepared to pay a premium for quality product and service.

 

[TomVexille]

There are still people out there who are prepared to pay a premium for quality product and service.

And not just with airlines

 

[Awesom Andy]

Scoot and AirAsia are ripping the yield out of the SEA market

I would disagree. Scoot went from daily SYD and OOL to a few times a week each, and will now have a triangulation on some days instead. If they can't fill the planes at $400 SGD return, I don't know what else anyone can do to fill them.

 

[Isochronous]

SQ didn't make any money from Tiger as an international LCC, why would they make any more money from Scoot?

 

[vitagen]

I think scoot has not enough planes to support all the routes currently with their desired frequency. From Per-Sin They only fly thurs-mon which is a smart move considering their target market is non business travellers and the times I've flown scoot the plane is pretty packed.

 

[xt_20]

I am not surprised by anything Qantas does at the moment.

They pulled out of PER and ADL without trying something different.

Well to be fair they did try to do something different, just not different enough, or rather, they made it worse each time.
- 2xA333 , one of which connects with Europe-bound flights
- Changing one of them to an A332, and moving timeslots so one of them arrives PER at 12 midnight, the other 4.40am.
- Moving to 1xA330 daytime flights to connect to 3K out of SIN.
- Making the above flight seasonal
- Cancelling the flight altogether

 

[mannej]

Well to be fair they did try to do something different, just not different enough, or rather, they made it worse each time.
- 2xA333 , one of which connects with Europe-bound flights
- Changing one of them to an A332, and moving timeslots so one of them arrives PER at 12 midnight, the other 4.40am.
- Moving to 1xA330 daytime flights to connect to 3K out of SIN.
- Making the above flight seasonal
- Cancelling the flight altogether

Considering that the 3 intl arrivals at PER arrived at 1:00, 4:45 and 4:55, is there any wonder that that move wasn't that popular?

 

[cmon0005]

Well to be fair they did try to do something different, just not different enough, or rather, they made it worse each time.
- 2xA333 , one of which connects with Europe-bound flights
- Changing one of them to an A332, and moving timeslots so one of them arrives PER at 12 midnight, the other 4.40am.
- Moving to 1xA330 daytime flights to connect to 3K out of SIN.
- Making the above flight seasonal
- Cancelling the flight altogether

I've said this before, but QF should have at least TRIALED a 737 service on the PER-SIN route before cancelling the route altogether, sure its not a widebody or have skybeds, but its better then no flight at all. The average punter that doesn't want to fly J* but is not really a FFer, will probably not care what plane they fly on, there are only 12 J seats on the 737 anyway so wouldn't be hard to fill them.
Just typical bean counter mentality, they could have trialed it for 2 months, see how loads are, see how profit per flight is then either can it or permanently change it to a 737, with 'seasonal' changes to a A330 when required.

 

[Awesom Andy]

Well to be fair they did try to do something different, just not different enough, or rather, they made it worse each time.
- 2xA333 , one of which connects with Europe-bound flights
- Changing one of them to an A332, and moving timeslots so one of them arrives PER at 12 midnight, the other 4.40am.
- Moving to 1xA330 daytime flights to connect to 3K out of SIN.
- Making the above flight seasonal
- Cancelling the flight altogether

Sounds like SYD-SIN is on the same slippery path. QF81/82 is going to be a mix of A332 and A333, and QF5/6 will be moved to a later time slot - not late enough to put in a full day's of work in SYD, but it's going to be a midnight from SIN, so you barely have half a day left when you arrive in SYD.