JQ Domestic Changes

[Kain C]

Look for some upcoming announcements from JQ for new domestic services. Some changes that I've noticed on the incomplete schedules for NW10 are firstly, the ADL-PER-ADL rotation has gone, with the ADL-PER and PER-ADL flight now operated by different aircraft, one of which either overnights in PER or does a redeye (PER-OOL?) after the evening ADL-PER run. There would have to be some sort of triangular route here to get the crew back to base, otherwise they could pax back on some other service. The aircraft that does the PER-ADL will either overnight in ADL (are they re-opening a base there?), or more likely goes somewhere else also quite late at night, again in a triangular pattern. Secondly, from Jan 2, there seems to be a new A320 in the system, operating SYD-OOL-SYD but then nothing else after that so far. Some time changes to other routes, like MEL-TSV departing first thing from MEL rather than in the afternoon, the first OOL-NTL-OOL seems to be operated either by an OOL based A320, or maybe if they start PER-OOL as above, then this aircraft rotates through that way. Finally, JQ have moved their final HBA-MEL to the wonderful time of a 10PM departure from HBA, so they have obviously learnt nothing from when they had the midnight special on HBA-BNE a few years ago before they dropped it in favor of LST-BNE! LST-MEL does quite well with JQ and QF, with extra DH3 services on LST-MEL over Dec/Jan on top of the additional JQ 320, on top of the additional JQ 320 on LST-SYD, where as HBA gets shafted yet again, despite consistently having a significantly higher LF% on flights compared with LST.