Jetstar's lounghaul launch

Hot on the heels of Jetstar's announcement that they will base a 7th A320 in NZ, is the announcement they will base an Airbus A330-200 in Auckland.

The arrival of the A332 will enable Jetstar to launch daily Auckland-Singapore flights from march 2011.

Jetstar chief executive Bruce Buchanan said the route was the next phase in Jetstar's expansion in New Zealand and its wider Asian network.

Read the full story HERE

Jetstar launch NZ fight

Jetstar have upped the anti in the fight with Pacific Blue for New Zealand passengers with the announcement they will base a 7th A320 in NZ.

Jetstar currently operate 6 A320s with 3 operating the domestic routes between Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown, and the other 3 operating trans-tasman routes, 2 out of Christchurch and 1 out of Auckland.

The report sourced from the CourierMail  website and featured in all news limited publications and websites across australia is unfortunately rife with errors.

• The picture shown is of a Jetstar A332 not an A320
• They describe Pacific Blue as operating two aircraft in New Zealand  while trans-tasman services are operated by other australian based aircraft.  Clearly Pacific Blue operates its trans tasman services with its New Zealand fleet of aircraft.
• They say Jetstar has carried four million passengers on internal routes but as reported in an Earlier Post, in April they were celebrating their 1 millionth domestic passenger, so I doubt they've carried 3 million passengers in the last 2 months

The full error riddled article can be found HERE