Pacific Blue applies for Phuket flights

[Radi K]

Good news..PER/HKT I would assume

Pacific Blue applies for Phuket flights

The International Air Services Commission has just confirmed an application from Pacific Blue for capacity which would allow it to operate seven weekly flights between Australia and Phuket.

The application says Pacific Blue proposes to progressively introduce the services, operated by 180-seat B737-800 aircraft, with full utilisation of the capacity by 01 Apr 2010.

The IASC is inviting other applications for the capacity, with a closing date of 20 May 2009.

More information in tomorrow's Travel Daily.

[Jason Carruthers]

Wasn't Pacific Blue looking at serving an "unspecified SE Asian destination" from DPS. If DJ fly DPS-HKT it could use feed from current PER/ADL/BNE flights

Vhq.

[Michael Morrison]

Most of the Bali flights seem to arrive around 2-4pm and then depart around midnight. So it seems as if DPS-HKT could be done daily with those slots.

[Ash W]

I wonder what the loads are like on the flights to DPS. By that are they light enough to justify carrying extra pax who want to continue onto HKT or would HKT need a full aircraft in its own right from Aus?

[Michael Morrison]

I hear BNE-DPS go out full alot of the time.

I presume some of those are SYD/MEL pax so that may change with the new direct flights

[Jarden S]

Would a 737-700 have the range to do Perth-Phuket non stop?
There would be more conecting traffic at Denpasar making it a more viable option that way I reckon.

[Michael Morrison]

PER-HKT is only 100 miles farther than SYD-DPS which they will be operating non-stop.

[NickN]

Good to see the Australian carriers opening up new options in SE Asia.

[Michael Morrison]

http://www.iasc.gov.au/determinations_decisions/files/2009/2009iasc107.pdf

Looks like they have been granted 3 x weekly DPS-HKT rights.

Currently only 7 weekly freq are available onwards from DPS and JQ have 4 of these, leaving 3 for Pac Blue.

[Brad Myer]

Currently only 7 weekly freq are available onwards from DPS and JQ have 4 of these, leaving 3 for Pac Blue.

But JQ this week has already announced daily PER-DPS-SIN??

[Anthony T]

Some of the JQ flights operate via Jakarta, not Denpasar.

Anthony T

[Erik H. Bakke]

Perhaps those are to be operated by Jetstar Asia?

[Steve Jones]

Going back to the original thread topic, PB has been given rights to 3x weekly DPS-HKT services.

http://www.iasc.gov.au/determinations_decisions/files/2009/2009iasc107.pdf

Does that mean the other 4 weekly flights will be direct (from PER presumably)?

[Stefan Perkas]

Steve,

Michal Morrison answered the last line of your post in his post on the previous page.