Jetstar to Start Long-Haul Flights From Singapore
Post by Travel Agency Singapore news
Low-cost carrier Jetstar is planning to start long-haul flights from Singapore to Australia, North Asia and Europe! Exciting news indeed for all travellers!
The first flights are expected at the end of this year 2010 from Singapore’s Changi Airport.
IATA figures say the Asian market is now the largest in the world. Jetstar plans to tap onto this huge growing market and aims to be an Asian success.
How cheap can you expect the airfares to be? A Jetstar spokesman said that the company will try to offer fares that are 30% lower.
Travel Agency Singapore shall be eagerly waiting for further news of these long-haul flights.
Further News on Open Skies & Budget Travel
In the news today: more on the budget air industry and the open skies agreements. We can expect more planes from exisiting low-cost carriers, and also new entrants to the budget airline industry. Hopefully, that will translate to lower prices, more frequent flights and to more destinations for us travellers. Also interesting is that Tiger Airways hit their 12 millionth passenger mark less than two months after getting their 11 millionth.
Excerpts from AFP:
Open skies, budget travel to power Asian airlines’ growth
SINGAPORE – The boom in low-cost travel and a growing web of open-skies agreements are expected to power long-term growth for Asian airlines after the global recession, industry bosses and analysts said.Participants in the Singapore Airshow which ended Sunday expressed optimism that the region, particularly China, will lead the rest of the world to recovery after the most harrowing year in global travel.
Top aircraft makers Boeing and Airbus say Asia will be the world’s biggest airplane market in the next 20 years, with orders expected to surpass 8,000 passenger and cargo planes worth over one trillion US dollars.
A key demand driver is the explosion in budget air travel.
By the latest count, there are at least 45 low-fare airlines across Asia from Japan to Pakistan. Unlike premium airlines, many of them managed to soar above the economic turbulence.
Singapore budget carrier Tiger Airways announced it has brought forward the delivery of another four Airbus A320s to next year instead of 2016, bringing to nine the number of planes whose delivery has been accelerated.
The carrier, which started flying in 2004, also announced it had flown its 12 millionth passenger — less than two months after the 11-million mark.
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Jetstar Homes In On Singapore
No-frills carrier Jetstar signed an agreement last week that will make Singapore its Asian hub. It also signed a 3.5-billion-dollar deal to use greener engines with a plan to expand into long-haul discount flights. These are all part of an ambition to turn the Australian carrier into an Asian carrier with growth in Asia.
Certainly exciting times ahead for travellers. I’m eagerly anticipating more low-cost carriers to more destinations. Personally, I wish these budget airlines will concentrate on the short routes within the ASEAN region first; there are still many more destinations they can reach.
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