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Jetstar looks to international routes and QF considers plane deal
Qantas is expected to confirm this week that Jetstar wil become an International carrier, looking for routes within 8 to 10 hours from Australia.
Mr Dixon said Jetstar could fly “routes that either Qantas has withdrawn from in the past 10 years or may have withdrawn over the last year or so and also new routes”.
“Certainly we want to try to find ones that Qantas and Australian carriers don’t fly to,” he said.
“That’s what we are going to try and do and that’s the recommendation that we are going to make to the board next week,” he told the ABC’s Inside Business program.
“If we can get the permission for this airline to start this week or the following week I would imagine we would want it up either by December next year or early 2007.”
According to Mr Dixon, Jetstar will probably evolve to be around 20% of the groups operations.
Also at Wednesday’s Board meeting Qantas will decide on whether to proceed with a $20 Billion dollar upgrade to the fleet, with Boeing and Airbus eagerly awaiting the decision.
The competition between Boeing and Airbus was the “closest contractual race that I have ever seen in my time in the industry”, said Mr Dixon, who estimated that the Qantas order would be one of the three largest over the past year.
“We haven’t spoken to the board about this but the tenders we have got are the best we’ve seen for a rollover case for aircraft in the history of Qantas,” he said.
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