Jetstar mulls Asian hub
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They would serve Jetstar’s planned long-haul flights to European cities such as Athens, Rome, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam and Milan.
Buchanan said the high aircraft turnaround charges imposed at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, twice that at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and Singapore’s Changi Airport, are an obstacle for Jetstar making Bangkok its Asian hub, he was quoted saying.
”We need to make sure that if we operated out of Bangkok to Europe, Bangkok offers as competitive a proposition as Kuala Lumpur and Changi,” he said, adding that talks are ongoing with Airports of Thailand, which operates Suvarnabhumi.
KLIA and Changi have lower airport costs because they both have terminals dedicated to low-cost carriers.
But Bangkok’s advantages are that it’s closer to Europe, can facilitate Jetstar’s long-haul and short-haul operations and can house Jetstar’s international crew numbering more than 100, Buchanan was quoted saying.
Jetstar flies three times a week between Melbourne and Bangkok and three times per week on the Sydney-Phuket routes. Its sister carrier, Singapore-based Jetstar Asia, operates two daily Singapore-Bangkok flights and six weekly flights Singapore-Phuket flights.
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