On 23/01/2010 9:57 AM, Alan McBride wrote:
Well that's not very useful: so much for expecting cheaper fares!
Thanks, hadn't heard that.
Since the service is underwritten by the government, I suspect it may
not be commercially
viable for one airline, let alone competing airlines.
I read somewhere that National Jet Systems (now Cobham Aviation)
declined to renew the
contract for flight services to Christmas and Cocos Is. - but other
articles says their bid was
unsuccessful. At any rate, the contract was won by Sky Air World, who
promptly went into
administration after their aircraft were repossessed prior to commencing
the service in April
2009. Presumably Virgin Blue are not likely to suffer a similar fate!
The maps on the Virgin Blue website haven't been updated yet, so I'm not
sure if they will be
skipping the Learmonth leg as SkyAirWorld intended to do. (The Embraer
jets have a
greater range than the BAe-146/Avro RJ that NJS uses.)
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