New Jetstar Service - Auckland to Adelaide

[Thomas Collins]

Jetstar announced new AKL to ADL services today:

Jetstar will fly the Auckland-to-Adelaide route three times a week from December 16.

Jetstar is launching a direct Auckland-to-Adelaide service from the middle of December, taking on Air New Zealand with special launch fares of $99 one-way.

Jetstar will fly the route three times a week from December 16, operating every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

Adelaide will be the airline's fourth trans-tasman destination in addition to services to Sydney, Melbourne and Gold Coast from Auckland, Christchurch and Queenstown.

Jetstar's head of New Zealand, Grant Kerr, said the customer response to trans-tasman flying had been strong over the past few years.

"We know Kiwis love to holiday in Australia and now they can discover or revisit another destination more affordably than in the past."

Fares for Auckland-Adelaide flights will start from $219 one-way online without checked baggage.

Air New Zealand flies daily services to Adelaide from Auckland and special one-way fares start at $250 without bags, according to Air New Zealand's website.

Air New Zealand will also face competition on its Auckland-Perth route over summer from Jetstar's parent company, Qantas.

Jetstar will use an Airbus A320 for the Auckland-Adelaide service, a flight of just under five hours.

[Jacob L]

Oooh, tempting (Not Really):eek:

Would not like to be in the last five rows for a five hour flight, espeically for tall people like myself, 6 foot 2 to be exact.

Does the A320 have the range for five hours, might have to run a bit underweight?????

Just my thoughts

Jacob

[Rowan McKeever]

Air NZ is already doing it Jacob, but that doesn't mean there's no load restriction. Shouldn't be too much though I wouldn't think.

I, too, would have no hesitation in NOT choosing this flight... in fact, if I lived in Adelaide, I'd be more tempted to fly ADL-PER-AKL! Like you said, just my thoughts :P

[Justin L]

Why wouldn't anyone like to fly JQ on a flight the distance of ADL-AKL? I have flown comparable flights distance and time wise on JQ for DRW-SGN and SIN-DRW and no issues. Even TR for PER-SIN wasn't too bad. And it's not that much different to ADL-DRW or ADL-CNS anyway.

More choice is great for everyone, especially ADL with limited non-stop international options compared to Australia's other major cities. And it's also a new international airline for ADL with the JQ service to AKL also.

[Thomas Collins]

At the end of the day, price will entice. It's that simple.

New release here (http://www.jetstar.com/mediacentre/latest-announcements/detail?Id=6bd819d7-19b4-443c-aae2-57bbd46603aa&language=en).

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Here are the schedules....

Monday & Wednesday

JQ195 Dep AKL 1305 Arr ADL 1525
JQ196 Dep ADL 1625 Arr AKL 2305

Saturday's

JQ195 Dep AKL 1405 Arr ADL 1625
JQ196 Dep ADL 1725 Arr AKL 0005+1

[Jarden S]

So its a NZ based A320 launching the route then. JQ may be reducing domestic NZ flights to allow this route to begin. I wonder if ADL-DPS will be next,they could do a PER-DPS-ADL-DPS-PER routing to get it there.

story:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11118404

[Thomas Collins]

Jetstar has taken, and continues to receive, new A320's this year. It is likely this additonal capacity is being funded by new hulls.

[Jarden S]

As the flights start and end in AKL, it won't be a new aircraft doing it just using one of the existing 9 NZ based 320s.