Jetstar Launches Darwin/Manila

[Geoff W]

I noted the introductory fares are good also.

Nice start up time to visit the Philippines weather wise.

Kind regards,

Geoff

[Andrew P]

got one for the wife to go see her mum/sisters for a week for $391 return in early march for a week

[Radi K]

well since jq outsourced flight dispatch to manilla and sacked all the local boys this makes sense :rolleyes:

[Jarden S]

This was discussed a bit somewhere in another thread. I might look at the Cairns option and have a stopover in Darwin for 3 pax.

[Jarden S]

Does anyone know of the new routing of this flight?
As Jetstar will be dropping the second DRW-SIN flight on the 15th would this aircraft then be free to do 3 per week to MNL and the other 4 days for the extra DPS flights bringing them up from 7 to 11 a week from DRW. Does this aircraft continue onto MEL like the old SIN-DRW-MEL schedule or a different route? How many A320s are based in DRW now?
It is not a good connection from ADL to MNL as it be a long wait in DRW from QF online timetable. Most will continue to use CX and SQ I reckon.
Sorry for so many questions...

[Gareth U]

Does anyone know of the new routing of this flight?

The JQ75/76 is the existing DRW-SYD-DRW that operates on the days the the JQ73/74 flight does not originate or terminate in SGN. The new MNL extension operates on the days the SGN does not (We Fr Su). So, the JQ61 sits in Darwin on the 3/4 days a week it does not ops the extra flight to DPS.

Is that what you were asking?

[Jarden S]

Thanks Gareth. As its hard to work out schedules from Qantas online timetable as they seem to use different flight numbers for Jetstar for those same routes.

[Peter Lea]

Noticed on the Darwin Departures Board today that there was a flight leaving as JQ75 for Manila departing at 6.55pm.
I also had a look at Darwin Airport's Weekly Flight Schedule and it shows the Darwin-Manila JQ flights leaving each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from 24th November, returning the following morning. The Jetstar website still shows the flights starting 9th Feb 2011.
Does anyone know if these flights actually operate as passenger flights.

Regards
Peter

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[Jarden S]

Maybe it has started already then?

[Jarden S]

It seems the Manila flights are not available after mid September as I tried booking a return from CNS-DRW-MNL and I can go out but not do the return trip I also tired to book two one-way tickets and still shows "sorry, no flights available" on the second page. So maybe Jetstar are just giving it a trial run for a few months and it no longer operates after September...

[Andrew P]

may to with the PI regulatory approval, which is a bureaucratic nightmare

Tiger at one stage when flying Clark - Macau Tiger was needing to get approval every day for the next days flight

[Jarden S]

There is a story about the launch flight of 9 Feb on AA:
http://australianaviation.com.au/2011/02/jetstar-launches-darwin-to-manila-service/

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Jetstar has introduced 4x weekly Darwin-Manila-Tokyo v.v service, starting March 26th.

JQ79 Dep DRW 0315 Arr MNL 0545 Dep MNL 0655 Arr NRT 1215 (Depart DRW. Monday, Tuesday, Friday & Saturday)
JQ78 Dep NRT 1425 Arr MNL 1825 Dep MNL 1915 Arr DRW 0120 (Arrive back into DRW. Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday)

[Dave Parer]

Are the DRW-MNL-NRT flights with A320 OR A321 equipment?

[Stefan Perkas]

Are the DRW-MNL-NRT flights with A320 OR A321 equipment?

Not sure David.

With the announcement of the NRT services, I understand the Darwin-Ho Chi Minh has been cut from 25/3/11.

[lloyd fox]

A320.

[Rowan McKeever]

Guys the DRW-MNL has been in place for a while, the announcement today was the extension of that service so that it becomes DRW-MNL-NRT.

[Jarden S]

The old 1900 dep time from DRW was nicer which arrived back 0600.
Shame they could not make Ho Chi Minh city work there will be now no Australian airline presence to Vietnam and no Jetstar connection to Jetstar pacific. Maybe Vietnam airlines is far too strong a competitor in the Australian market.