Originally Posted by
BD1959
Gee, talk about spin and misinformation.
"China is already one of the largest tourism markets for Australia and has huge potential for growth in air travel as the size of its middle class swells."
Unless there's a huge masterplan for this new airline to codeshare into QF/CX into Australia - and frankly, there appears to be no increase in capacity to allow for this - then surely the introduction of JQHK is as relevant to the Australian Tourist industry as JQ Vietnam.
The launch of a new budget airline in Hong Kong in partnership with the mainland Chinese airline will go some way to ease the pressure on Qantas, which ditched plans to launch a premium carrier in south-east Asia earlier this month. The expansion plan had been lauded as one of the main planks of chief executive Alan Joyce's strategy to turning around Qantas's premium international business.
Spending $99million on this upstart is going to turnaround the $200m loss on QFi - or even part thereof ... how?
I'd love to see the original Press Release which fed this rubbish.
Regards,
BD
I dunno. Could provide a lot of feeder traffic into the HKG flights (maybe we might even see MEL-HKG switch to an A380 if there is enough traffic).
Flights ex HKG to China are expensive (always - with the exception of Spring which allows only hand luggage and is notoriously delayed).
JQ would provide a valid option for me (especially with lounge access and extra leg-room seats)