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New entrant in air wars?
WA Regional carrier SkyWest, is reportedly looking to introduce 180-seat Airbus A320 aircraft into its fleet.
Skywest’s 78 per cent owner, Singaporean company Advent Air, said yesterday it had signed a deal with the Icelandic transport group Avion to deploy up to four A320s in Skywest’s fleet.
“At this stage we have not formed a view on which routes we will deploy the aircraft,” said Advent Air and Skywest chairman Jeff Chatfield.
“We fly to a number of quite high-capacity destinations and may use them on these,” he said, noting the airline already flew from Perth to holiday spots such as Darwin, Bali and Broome.
Mr Chatfield said the possibility of Skywest launching services to the east coast was a “possibility that we wouldn’t rule out”.
“Certainly I’d say the priority in the short term is on the existing routes that we fly,” he said.
Mr Chatfield stressed Skywest had no intention of sparking a price war. “We will only do things that are commercially sensible,” he said.
There were some markets in Australia where there was a lot of competition and some where there was not, he said.
Each year, Skywest flies more than 320,000 people across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and to Bali, providing an essential link for regional communities, tourists and businesses.
The airline currently operates a fleet of Fokker 50 turbo-prop and Fokker 100 jet aircraft.
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