Pacific Blue Increasing

[Lukas M]

Pacific Blue
Boosting BNE-NADI x2 (now daily)
Boosting BNE-PORT VILA x1 (3 weekly now)


http://www.pacificblue.com.au/AboutUs/Media/NewsandPressReleases/P_004412.htm
http://www.pacificblue.com.au/AboutUs/Media/NewsandPressReleases/P_004413.htm

Wasn't PacBlue looking at the Soloman Islands also??

Virgin Blue

Boosting SYD-MCY (extra daily, twice extra on SAT)

[Kain C]

Virgin Blue

Boosting SYD-MCY (extra daily, twice extra on SAT)

Also going (back to) 4 daily SYD-PER.

PER-SYD 0600-1210
SYD-MCY 1300-1435
MCY-SYD 1505-1640
SYD-PER 1730-2035

Is this a 737 or an E190?

[NickN]

Would be a 737 those are quite long hops.

[Steve Jones]

CBR-BNE transitioning (gradual progression) from 3x737s to 4xE190 per day too. Also middle of the day CBR-MEL becomes E190.

Anyone here in the know about the rollout of the E190s and what routes they'll be doing?

[lloyd fox]

I notice extra BNE-AKL flights to coincide with the extra BNE-VLI and BNE-NAN

BNE-AKL appears to increase from 6 to 10 a week.

In regards to Pacific Blue and Solomons route they decided not to take it up presently.

BNE-CBR actually goes to 5 a day from next week.BNE-ROK also increases from 3 to 4 a day

Lloyd:)

[Steve S... 2]

Hi,

Pacific Blue must be adding a 7th 737-800 to the fleet because their current 6are pretty much fully utilised. Would it be VH-VUH that was repainted a few months back (at the same time as VH-VUB & VH-VUD but they already transferred from DJ to PB).

Regards,

Steve S.

[Steve Jones]

Lloyd - BNE-CBR goes to 5 a day (3x737, 2xE190) as part of the progression to E190s but you'll find that in a month or so it settles back to 4x daily, all E190.

This may of course change - schedules seem to be changing every 2 weeks or so on average as the new planes get integrated into the fleet.

[Kain C]

Also noticed additional weekend MEL-HBA and LST services for May and June. E190 or 737?

[lloyd fox]

BNE-WLG appears to go from 3 to 5 a week .

Pacific Blue have increased BNE flights to 36 departures a week and BNE appears a real success story for this carrier .

[Kain C]

New batches of schedules have been loaded for DJ. New services effective 22/7 and 22/8. Mainly CBR and HBA. MEL-CBR up to 6 daily (1 x EMJ, 5 x 737), MEL-HBA up to 7 or 8 daily (1 x EMJ, 6 or 7 x 737). Probably other routes as well. All changing very quickly at the moment.

[Steve Jones]

Where do you see this, Kain? At the moment the DJ website is showing 3 or 4 MEL-CBR flights, even less than currently.

[Kain C]

Hi Steve,

On the timetable, not the booking engine. I guess the updates are still being loaded, and for the first time ever the timetable is infront! MEL-CBR services depart MEL at 7:00 (EMJ), 8:15, 13:30, 15:25, 16:30 and 18:15 is now daily (used to be Thu,Fri,Sun only). Have a look and see if you find more new services.

:)

[Radi K]

Kain yes you are quite correct.

Also from late Aug, almost all CBR-ADL/MEL/SYD/BNE/OOL flts are E-Jets. BNE-MKY 2 daily E90. All BNE-ROK's. 2 BNE/ADL flights and the BNE/HTI flight are E90s. Aswell as MEL/HBA, look out for some extra MEL/ADL flights.

[Steve Jones]

Usually such schedule increases are trumpteted via press releases, but I guess so much is happening so fast, they can't keep up! Just out of curiousity, are new schedules not deemed sufficiently important as to notify the ASX?

[Steve S... 2]

What happened to the 20 or so new routes DJ was going to open up with the Embraers? I can only think of SYD-ABX-SYD & SYD-CFS-SYD & SYD-CBR-SYD.

[Justin L]

What happened to the 20 or so new routes DJ was going to open up with the Embraers? I can only think of SYD-ABX-SYD & SYD-CFS-SYD & SYD-CBR-SYD.

SYD-CFS-SYD already existed before the Embraers. I think you're thinking of SYD-PPQ-SYD.

[Michael Morrison]

So where are the 737's going that are being replaced?

[Kain C]

So where are the 737's going that are being replaced?

SYD-PER increasing by 2 daily (now 5 daily) and BNE-PER going from daily to double daily, and an extra SYD-BNE at least. 1 of the extra HBA-MEL is a 737 (I'm pretty sure as it used to go HBA-ADL but that service has been retimed), and Radi suggests that there are extra ADL-MEL too.

It would be nice if they announced these, as I'm not sure how accurate the aircraft type is on the DJ schedules. E.g. it says CBR-BNE is 5 daily 73G but I'm sure they must all be E190. Others such as BNE-ROK, MKY, ADL, HTI say 73G but Radi is saying that they are E190 which is more believable to me anyway.

Perhaps someone from DJ can give a summary of the correct information?

:confused:

[lloyd fox]

BNE-SYD goes from 21 a day weekdays to 24 a day by 1 sep

Also BNE-MEL goes to 12 a day up from 11.

With all these schedule increases a total increase of 8 a day out of Brissie by Virgin takes it to 71 a day on weekdays which for the first time means more jet flights than Qantas has out of here.

Regards Lloyd

[Steve Jones]

With CBR-ADL going to an E-jet and being a flight that does quite well, any chance of a second daily service in the morning (here's hoping...)