You can always walk to where you want to go.
Local airlines going backwards!
Tiger will give them a bit of hurry up as well.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/busin...celled-run-late/2007/05/02/1177788224990.html
Domestic airlines slip as flights cancelled, run late
Mathew Murphy
May 3, 2007
THE performance of Australia's major airlines in getting people to their destinations on time has slipped.
Qantas, Virgin Blue and Jetstar also cancelled more domestic flights, according to figures for February.
The data, compiled by the federal Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics, shows Virgin Blue's passengers were the most likely of the three to be delayed. The airline's on-time performance was the poorest of the three major airlines, taking a significant hit for the month.
Virgin achieved its scheduled take-off time in 87.5 per cent of its flights in February, down from 90.5 per cent in January. Its passengers also arrived later than in January, with 86.7 per cent of flights landing on time, a decline of 3.7 percentage points on its January result.
Virgin cancelled twice as many flights as in January, with 86 services dropped from scheduled services, or 1 per cent of its total flights.
Virgin Blue spokeswoman Amanda Bolger said the figures were disappointing but were due to external factors.
"It wasn't our best OTP (on-time performance) month due to factors outside of our control, including weather and instances of minor but unscheduled engineering requirements," she said.
Jetstar, which had been the poor performer in the recent results, was the only airline of the three to improve its on-time departures, up from 88.2 per cent to 89.1 per cent.
However, cancellations, which have caused it headaches in recent months, rose sharply, to 67 in February from 14 the month before. This represented 1.7 per cent of flights compared with 0.3 per cent in January.
The performance of Jetstar's parent airline, Qantas, slid in February on all three indicators.
Its departures were on schedule 89.2 per cent of the time, down from 90.6 per cent in January. On-time arrivals told a similar story, falling from 91.5 per cent to 89 per cent for February. Cancellations rose slightly from 81 flights to 102.
The Qantas result came as Airline Partners Australia, the Macquarie-led consortium attempting to take over the airline, announced its see-sawing acceptance level had risen slightly. After announcing on Monday that it had lost more than 45 million Qantas shares, APA told the market it had recovered more than 7 million. Acceptances rose from 25.51 per cent to 25.94 per cent.
It appears that institutions and hedge funds are starting to make their move in favour of accepting APA's $5.45-a-share bid. Locked-in acceptances within that 25.94 per cent rose about 5 percentage points to 17.63 per cent while the nominal acceptances held under the Institutional Acceptances Facility dropped by about the same amount to 8.31 per cent as institutions finally made a decision.
APA needs to obtain 50 per cent of acceptances before tomorrow or the bid will fail.
If the consortium reaches the 50 per cent mark, it will be given a two-week extension under law to achieve 70 per cent acceptances — the target that its financiers require it to reach if they are to fund the deal.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/busin...celled-run-late/2007/05/02/1177788224990.html
Domestic airlines slip as flights cancelled, run late
Mathew Murphy
May 3, 2007
THE performance of Australia's major airlines in getting people to their destinations on time has slipped.
Qantas, Virgin Blue and Jetstar also cancelled more domestic flights, according to figures for February.
The data, compiled by the federal Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics, shows Virgin Blue's passengers were the most likely of the three to be delayed. The airline's on-time performance was the poorest of the three major airlines, taking a significant hit for the month.
Virgin achieved its scheduled take-off time in 87.5 per cent of its flights in February, down from 90.5 per cent in January. Its passengers also arrived later than in January, with 86.7 per cent of flights landing on time, a decline of 3.7 percentage points on its January result.
Virgin cancelled twice as many flights as in January, with 86 services dropped from scheduled services, or 1 per cent of its total flights.
Virgin Blue spokeswoman Amanda Bolger said the figures were disappointing but were due to external factors.
"It wasn't our best OTP (on-time performance) month due to factors outside of our control, including weather and instances of minor but unscheduled engineering requirements," she said.
Jetstar, which had been the poor performer in the recent results, was the only airline of the three to improve its on-time departures, up from 88.2 per cent to 89.1 per cent.
However, cancellations, which have caused it headaches in recent months, rose sharply, to 67 in February from 14 the month before. This represented 1.7 per cent of flights compared with 0.3 per cent in January.
The performance of Jetstar's parent airline, Qantas, slid in February on all three indicators.
Its departures were on schedule 89.2 per cent of the time, down from 90.6 per cent in January. On-time arrivals told a similar story, falling from 91.5 per cent to 89 per cent for February. Cancellations rose slightly from 81 flights to 102.
The Qantas result came as Airline Partners Australia, the Macquarie-led consortium attempting to take over the airline, announced its see-sawing acceptance level had risen slightly. After announcing on Monday that it had lost more than 45 million Qantas shares, APA told the market it had recovered more than 7 million. Acceptances rose from 25.51 per cent to 25.94 per cent.
It appears that institutions and hedge funds are starting to make their move in favour of accepting APA's $5.45-a-share bid. Locked-in acceptances within that 25.94 per cent rose about 5 percentage points to 17.63 per cent while the nominal acceptances held under the Institutional Acceptances Facility dropped by about the same amount to 8.31 per cent as institutions finally made a decision.
APA needs to obtain 50 per cent of acceptances before tomorrow or the bid will fail.
If the consortium reaches the 50 per cent mark, it will be given a two-week extension under law to achieve 70 per cent acceptances — the target that its financiers require it to reach if they are to fund the deal.
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Just a comparison, in March, Connex cancelled 0.9% of services and 90.5% of all services ran on time, so the figures are quite similar to the airlines. I guess we're glad that people aren't calling for Qantas to be returned to government control.Virgin achieved its scheduled take-off time in 87.5 per cent of its flights in February, down from 90.5 per cent in January. Its passengers also arrived later than in January, with 86.7 per cent of flights landing on time, a decline of 3.7 percentage points on its January result.
Virgin cancelled twice as many flights as in January, with 86 services dropped from scheduled services, or 1 per cent of its total flights.
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Jetstar, which had been the poor performer in the recent results, was the only airline of the three to improve its on-time departures, up from 88.2 per cent to 89.1 per cent.
However, cancellations, which have caused it headaches in recent months, rose sharply, to 67 in February from 14 the month before. This represented 1.7 per cent of flights compared with 0.3 per cent in January.
The performance of Jetstar's parent airline, Qantas, slid in February on all three indicators.
Its departures were on schedule 89.2 per cent of the time, down from 90.6 per cent in January. On-time arrivals told a similar story, falling from 91.5 per cent to 89 per cent for February. Cancellations rose slightly from 81 flights to 102.
yea, but everyone hates connex.Just a comparison, in March, Connex cancelled 0.9% of services and 90.5% of all services ran on time, so the figures are quite similar to the airlines. I guess we're glad that people aren't calling for Qantas to be returned to government control.
hno:
Here's Virgin's reason:
Virgin services in chaos
By Steve Creedy, Aviation writer
VIRGIN Blue says it will be at least June before it can resume a normal schedule after cancelling up to five flights a day because of a "shortage of available pilot hours".
The airline says it is close to finalising alternative travel arrangements for customers affected by the cancellations and it has managed to accommodate most on flights operating on the same day they were originally scheduled to travel.
While Virgin has rejected union claims it is suffering a pilot shortage, it admits its existing pilot base is unable to operate all its flights.
It also concedes the problem is one of its own making and is partly due to the fact it has pilots training to fly new Embraer aircraft scheduled to begin arriving later this year.
“We have a shortage of available pilot hours – primarily during May – as we have a number of requirements for pilot time over and above normal scheduled operations due to growth, training for new aircraft and the delay in implementing new work rules,” spokeswoman Heather Jeffery said. “We do not, however, intend to change our ongoing pilot recruitment profiles as the last thing we will do is recruit people for an issue that sees us return to our full schedule in June.
“As a result, we have opted to remove about four to five flights per day out of a daily total of 330 during May. This did affect around 70 people per day and these flights have already been removed from the system.”
The airline has been at loggerheads with its pilots and flight attendants after both groups rejected enterprise bargaining agreements that had been endorsed by union officials.
Ms Jeffery said the airline would put a revised proposal to pilots in about two weeks and believed it would win their support. She was not aware of any suggestion of strike action. It was also surveying cabin crew to find out why they rejected their enterprising bargaining agreement.
Virgin services in chaos
By Steve Creedy, Aviation writer
VIRGIN Blue says it will be at least June before it can resume a normal schedule after cancelling up to five flights a day because of a "shortage of available pilot hours".
The airline says it is close to finalising alternative travel arrangements for customers affected by the cancellations and it has managed to accommodate most on flights operating on the same day they were originally scheduled to travel.
While Virgin has rejected union claims it is suffering a pilot shortage, it admits its existing pilot base is unable to operate all its flights.
It also concedes the problem is one of its own making and is partly due to the fact it has pilots training to fly new Embraer aircraft scheduled to begin arriving later this year.
“We have a shortage of available pilot hours – primarily during May – as we have a number of requirements for pilot time over and above normal scheduled operations due to growth, training for new aircraft and the delay in implementing new work rules,” spokeswoman Heather Jeffery said. “We do not, however, intend to change our ongoing pilot recruitment profiles as the last thing we will do is recruit people for an issue that sees us return to our full schedule in June.
“As a result, we have opted to remove about four to five flights per day out of a daily total of 330 during May. This did affect around 70 people per day and these flights have already been removed from the system.”
The airline has been at loggerheads with its pilots and flight attendants after both groups rejected enterprise bargaining agreements that had been endorsed by union officials.
Ms Jeffery said the airline would put a revised proposal to pilots in about two weeks and believed it would win their support. She was not aware of any suggestion of strike action. It was also surveying cabin crew to find out why they rejected their enterprising bargaining agreement.
This is just the reason why competition and therefore better punctuality hasn't happened in Australia, too much regulatory protection for QANTAS.Just a comparison, in March, Connex cancelled 0.9% of services and 90.5% of all services ran on time, so the figures are quite similar to the airlines. I guess we're glad that people aren't calling for Qantas to be returned to government control.
A family friend who in a senior position at Virgin (and has held senior positions at large international airlines before Virgin) told me that there are a handful of Virgin aircraft parked on the ground in New Zealand because there is simply not enough pilots to fly them. Also said that many pilots are refusing to take positions on the Embraers because the company has yet to tell them where the aircraft will be based or what routes they will be ued on.
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