Qantas to drop Singapore-Mumbai and Auckland-LA routes
Originally published on www.businesstravellerme.com 16/02/2012 - Filed under: News »
Qantas is to drop Singapore-Mumbai and Auckland-Los Angeles from May 6.
This is in addition to previously-announced withdrawals from the Hong Kong-London and Bangkok-London routes, effective next month.
However the carrier will make significant capacity increases on the Los Angeles-New York route from May 6 (A330 replaced with B747) and Sydney-Tokyo route from June 10 (one A330 service per week replaced with daily B747 services).
The announcements came as the Qantas Group announced underlying pre-tax profits of $202 million, down $215 million year-on-year, for the half-year ending December 31 2011.
The group attributed the losses to the much-publicised industrial action affecting Qantas, which cost $194 million, and a $444 million increase in its fuel bill.
Jetstar achieved runderlying EBIT of $147 million, up $4 million on last year's first-half earnings.
Up to 500 "structurally redundant" jobs are to go as part of a new cost-cutting drive, although it insisted no jobs will go offshore.
Its airports rostering and workforce planning team, currently dispersed around individual airports, will be largely consolidated in Sydney.
For more information, visit qantas.com
Report by Dominic Ellis
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cbroo79 - 16/02/2012 16:19
These decisions will backfire as they limit the choice for oneworld members to have meanigfull RTW trips incorporating NZ, AUS, SIN (or Bkk) and India (all import regional markets) in the alliance tickets.
QF giving up on these routes is just anoter step t recue QF to a minor local player.
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