TUE 13 JANUARY 2015 Mediaportal Report Overhaul to attract tourists 09 Jan 2015 The Advocate, Ayr QLD, General News, Regina Lovic Page 4 • 379 words • ASR AUD 866 Photo: Yes • Type: News Item • Size: 396.00 cm² • QLD • Australia • Company Press • ID: 359524183 View print article - Read full text 3,677 CIRCULATION Interview with David Collins, Chief Operating Officer, Gold Coast Airport to talk about the... 12 Jan 2015 6:46 AM ABC Gold Coast, Gold Coast , Breakfast , Trevor Jackson Duration: 8 mins 43 secs • ASR AUD 3,407 • QLD • Australia • Company Radio & TV • ID: V00060214660 Interview with David Collins, Chief Operating Officer, Gold Coast Airport to talk about the importance of the airport in the Gold Coast. Collins says when he was growing up, they used to drive up to Sydney for two days which now takes him only over an hour when he travels through plane. He says the airport is important since they can have tourist coming from New Zealand, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur through Air Asia that flies there daily. They talk about the history of the airport which opened in 1936 with Collins saying it was just an emergency landing strip for flights between Sydney and Brisbane. Collins says they had 5.7m passengers last year and that they have just announced flights to Wellington and Queenstown. The compere the airport providing an opportunity for locals to fly out from Gold Coast to New Zealand rather than driving through Thredbo or Falls Creek to ski. The compere asks about what can be expected in the growth of the airport in the lead up to 2018 Commonwealth Games. Collins talks about the strong demand in the Gold Coast and their additional flights to New Zealand. He says they are about to have Fiji flights in March. Collins say the Brisbane market is important to the Gold Coast, as well as those from Sydney and Melbourne. They talk about the challenges for the airport saying the community needs to promote Gold Coast, most specially in NSW as QLD dropped off the market in Sydney. Collins say they need to work with Tourism QLD and Gold Coast Tourism to improve the markets since Melbourne has been slightly ahead of them. 11,000 ALL 5,000 MALE 16+ 6,000 FEMALE 16+ Interviewees David Collins, Chief Operating Officer, Gold Coast Airport Scoot boosts network with Virgin Australia partnership 12 Jan 2015 2:06 PM Australian Aviation Magazine by australianaviation.com.au 177 words • ASR AUD 9,114 • Internet • ID: 360574158 A Scoot Boeing 777-200ER. (James Morgan) Low-cost carrier Scoot had expanded its Australian network through a partnership with Virgin Australia. Read on source website N/A UNIQUE DAILY VISITORS N/A AV. STORY AUDIENCE Scooting to north easier 13 Jan 2015 Cairns Post, Cairns QLD, General News, Nick Dalton Page 3 • 325 words • ASR AUD 1,142 Photo: Yes • Type: News Item • Size: 257.00 cm² • QLD • Australia • Company Press • ID: 360715749 View print article - Read full text 18,262 CIRCULATION COPYRIGHT This report and its contents are for the internal research use of Mediaportal subscribers only and may not be provided to any third party by any means for any purpose without the express permission of iSentia and/or the relevant copyright owner. For more information contact [email protected] DISCLAIMER iSentia uses multiple audience data sources for press, internet, TV and radio, including AGB Nielsen Media Research, Audit Bureau of Circulations, comScore, CSM Media Research, OzTAM, Nielsen, Research International and TNS. For general information purposes only. Any ASRs and audience figures are an estimate only and may be subject to error or omission. iSentia makes no representations and, to the extent permitted by law, excludes all warranties in relation to the information contained in the report and is not liable for any losses, costs or expenses, resulting from any use or misuse of the report.
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Mediaportal Report
Overhaul to attract tourists09 Jan 2015The Advocate, Ayr QLD, General News, Regina Lovic
Page 4 • 379 words • ASR AUD 866Photo: Yes • Type: News Item • Size: 396.00 cm² • QLD • Australia • Company Press • ID: 359524183
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Interview with David Collins, Chief Operating Officer, Gold Coast Airport to talk about the...12 Jan 2015 6:46 AMABC Gold Coast, Gold Coast , Breakfast, Trevor Jackson
Duration: 8 mins 43 secs • ASR AUD 3,407 • QLD • Australia • Company Radio & TV • ID: V00060214660
Interview with David Collins, Chief Operating Officer, Gold Coast Airport to talk about the importance of the airport in the Gold Coast.Collins says when he was growing up, they used to drive up to Sydney for two days which now takes him only over an hour when hetravels through plane. He says the airport is important since they can have tourist coming from New Zealand, Singapore, KualaLumpur through Air Asia that flies there daily. They talk about the history of the airport which opened in 1936 with Collins saying it wasjust an emergency landing strip for flights between Sydney and Brisbane. Collins says they had 5.7m passengers last year and thatthey have just announced flights to Wellington and Queenstown. The compere the airport providing an opportunity for locals to fly outfrom Gold Coast to New Zealand rather than driving through Thredbo or Falls Creek to ski. The compere asks about what can beexpected in the growth of the airport in the lead up to 2018 Commonwealth Games. Collins talks about the strong demand in the GoldCoast and their additional flights to New Zealand. He says they are about to have Fiji flights in March. Collins say the Brisbane marketis important to the Gold Coast, as well as those from Sydney and Melbourne. They talk about the challenges for the airport saying thecommunity needs to promote Gold Coast, most specially in NSW as QLD dropped off the market in Sydney. Collins say they need towork with Tourism QLD and Gold Coast Tourism to improve the markets since Melbourne has been slightly ahead of them.
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David Collins, Chief Operating Officer, Gold Coast Airport
Scoot boosts network with Virgin Australia partnership12 Jan 2015 2:06 PMAustralian Aviation Magazine by australianaviation.com.au
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A Scoot Boeing 777-200ER. (James Morgan)Low-cost carrier Scoot had expanded its Australian network through a partnership with Virgin Australia.
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Scooting to north easier13 Jan 2015Cairns Post, Cairns QLD, General News, Nick Dalton
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COPYRIGHT This report and its contents are for the internal research use of Mediaportal subscribers only and may not beprovided to any third party by any means for any purpose without the express permission of iSentia and/or the relevantcopyright owner. For more information contact [email protected]
DISCLAIMER iSentia uses multiple audience data sources for press, internet, TV and radio, including AGB Nielsen MediaResearch, Audit Bureau of Circulations, comScore, CSM Media Research, OzTAM, Nielsen, Research International andTNS. For general information purposes only. Any ASRs and audience figures are an estimate only and may be subject toerror or omission. iSentia makes no representations and, to the extent permitted by law, excludes all warranties in relationto the information contained in the report and is not liable for any losses, costs or expenses, resulting from any use ormisuse of the report.
Fears Cape's sick13 Jan 2015Cairns Post, Cairns QLD, General News, Nika Ume
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2018 deadline looms as LNP plans for light rail's next stage13 Jan 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD, General News, Kathleen Skene
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Animal oddities keep Coast's airport staff on toes13 Jan 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD, General News, Shaya Laughlin
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Pacific in class of its own with Virgin13 Jan 2015The Dominion Post, Wellington, Business Day, Dave Burgess
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Stop taking us for a ride says airline13 Jan 2015Northern Territory News, Darwin, General News, CRAIG DUNLOP
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Break silence on Skytrans crash13 Jan 2015Cairns Post, Cairns QLD, General News
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Aviation delays all 'part of industry'13 Jan 2015Daily Mercury, Mackay QLD, General News, Shakira Sellen
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A heap of weird item is seen by by security officers at Gold Coast airport last year. With ...13 Jan 2015 6:02 AMSEA FM Gold Coast, Gold Coast, 06:00 News, Newsreader
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A heap of weird item is seen by by security officers at Gold Coast airport last year. With some of the pieces attempting to make theirway in, officers also destroyed more than a ton of these.
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Overhaul to attract touristsRegina Lovic
TOURISM in the Burdekin isset to get an overhaul this yearwith Townsville EnterpriseLimited partnering up with theBurdekin Shire Council to pro-mote the region.
Townsville Enterprise Lim-ited (TEL) are continuing theirpartnership with five regionalcouncils which was launchedlast year to help drive the localeconomy.
Townsville, Hinchinbrook,Burdekin, Charters Towers,Magnetic Island and Palm Is-land will continue to strategisethis year with TEL, with thesecond phase to be completedby May.
TEL interim chief executiveofficer Patricia O’Callaghanconfirmed the organisationwould continue it’s ‘TownsvilleNorth Queensland, Alive withCuriosity’ campaign to encour-age tourists to explore thewhole region, not just Towns-ville.
“We will again be runningthe Townsville North Queens-land, Alive with Curiosity witha second phase this year lead-ing in to our winter periodwhich is the best time to be inthis region,” she said.
“This will be promoting theregion down south to encour-age people to come and ex-plore the Townsville regionwhich the Burdekin is a partof.”
This year the ‘Tourism isEveryone’s Business’ cam-
paign will see TEL encouragecouncil’s to set up a RegionalOpen Day.
“This is about promoting toour locals that they need to getout and explore their backyard. Hopefully in conductionwith the Burdekin Shire Coun-cil, (they will) put forth the
Burdekin’s greatest hot spotsin an itinerary for Townsvil-
lians to get out and explore. “It’s definitely about work-
ing as a community and that’sfive regions working together.”
“The Open Day with theBurdekin this year also coin-cides with the (North Queens-land) Cane CuttingChampionships.”
Burdekin Tourism Associ-ation president Treena List
said the organisation also hada few things planned to pro-mote the beautiful spots in theregion.
“At this stage there are afew things planned. We don’thave any major plans exceptthe cane cutting champion-ships at the end of May.
“We’re planning on havinga workshop in the New Year
with a think tank of membersto encourage new ideas onhow to promote the Burdekin.
“We have a number of localevents happening at theBurdekin Theatre, beautifulwalks and scenery along withtalented locals and sportingevents. Juru Walk is a majortourist attraction at the mo-ment.”
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PARTNERSHIP: Burdekin Mayor Bill Lowis, Townsville Chamber of Commerce president Steve Motti and acting CEO Patricia O'Callaghan,
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Low-cost airline smooths process for catching Virgin flights to Cairns
Scooting to north easier
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SINGAPORE’S low-cos tairline Scoot is making it easierfor tourists to get to Cairns viaVirgin Australia’s domesticnetwork.
Scoot has announced a dealthat allows passengers flyingdirect to Australia to easily hop
on a Virgin flight to Cairnsfrom Sydney, Perth, GoldCoast and Melbourne.
The region’s tourismindustry is hoping that thesuccess of the venture willeventually lead to direct flightsby Scoot from Singapore toCairns, depending upon pass-enger patronage.
Scoot chief executiveCampbell Wilson said it waspart of the airline’s expansionof its Australian network.
“Guests travelling to Aus-tralia on Scoot’s non-stop ser-vices to Sydney, Perth, GoldCoast or Melbourne can nowbuy tickets through to eightadditional cities in a singletransaction,” he said.
“Australia was Scoot’s veryfirst destination and, sincelaunching flight to Sydney inJune 2012, we’ve added GoldCoast, Perth and, soon,Melbourne. Our new partner-ship with Virgin Australia
expands our coverage of Aus-tralia yet further, so whetherit’s north, south, east or west,Scoot and Virgin have Austra-lia covered.”
A Virgin Australia spokes-
person said a few internationalairlines “interlined” with Vir-gin Australia to access its ex-tensive domestic network.
Tourism Tropical NorthQueensland chief executiveAlex de Waal said that the ar-rangement was expected to in-
crease visitor numbers and was“good news”.
“The Scoot partnershipwith Virgin will add value toour destination propositionand is likely to further enhanceutilisation of existing Virgindomestic capacity,” he said.
“Invariably this can lead toan escalation of Virgindomestic capacity and, underfavourable circumstances,could lead to the introductionof direct services.”
Mr de Waal said TTNQ’sfocus was on direct flights.
Cairns Airport chief execu-tive Kevin Brown said the air-port valued its partnershipwith both the Singapore Air-lines group and Virgin Austra-lia very highly.
“This latest developmentcomes ahead of the com-mencement of SilkAir’s directservice between Singapore andCairns which starts on May30,” he said.
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Cairns Post, Cairns QLD13 Jan 2015, by Nick Dalton
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Fears Cape’s sick
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CAIRNS CAIRNSCAIRNSALP candidate RobALP candidate RobALP candidate RobPyne has called on the New-man Government to providecharter flights home for CapeYork residents in the wake ofthe Skytrans closure to reduceCairns Hospital “bed block”.
Mr Pyne said a number ofpeople from Cape York receiv-ing treatment at the hospitalhad become trapped in the cityand were either taking up valu-able hospital beds or livinghomeless until they could beflown back home.
The demand comes afterthe recent announcement ofSkytrans’ closure, blamed onthe loss of a Queensland Gov-ernment contract to servicethe Gulf and western Queens-land, which was awarded bythe Government to NSW-based Rex.
Mr Pyne yesterday said rev-elations had emerged since theclosure that people from com-munities having procedures atCairns Hospital couldn’t flyhome afterwards.
“With places like the RedCross shelters being often full,what this is resulting in is thesepeople having to sleep on ourstreets,” he said.
“So I’m calling on the Gov-ernment to organise charterflights to get these people hometo their communities so otherpeople who need procedurescan get in to Cairns Hospital.”
He also demanded the hos-pital publicly release the num-ber of patients it was hostingwho were awaiting flightshome to Cape York.
“People from QueenslandHealth are ringing me everyday about this, it’s a major con-cern,” he said.
Torres and Cape Hospitaland Health Service CEO DrJill Newland said patients fromthe Torres Strait and CapeYork regions were sent toCairns for a wide variety ofmedical services.
“The great majority of theseservices involve only out-patient clinic appointmentswith medical specialists or formedical imaging,” she said.
“As such, these patients donot take up beds at CairnsHospital; they are accommo-dated in hostels, motels andhotels in the city, subsided bythe Patient Travel SubsidyScheme.”
She said Torres and Capepatients who were admitted toCairns Hospital includedacutely ill people evacuatedfrom their communities by theRoyal Flying Doctor Service,or those who had travelled toCairns for elective surgery orto have their babies.
“If a Torres and Cape resi-dent’s treatment as an inpa-tient at Cairns Hospital hasbeen completed, they are dis-charged just like any other pa-tient and will beaccommodated at a hostel,motel or hotel under the Pa-tient Travel Subsidy Schemeuntil they can be flown home.”
She said “nearly all” Torresand Cape patients who werestranded in Cairns last weekdue to the demise of Skytranshad now been returned home –“except for a handful who didnot show up for their bookedflights”.
“We will continue to try torepatriate this handful of pa-
tients,” she said.Transport Minister Scott
Emerson said air services toCape York communities hadcontinued as of three daysafter the Skytrans closure.
He said WestWing Aviationhad filled the gap for flights tothe townships of Aurukun,Bamaga, Coen, Pormpuraaw,Kowanyama and LockhartRiver.
“The Queensland Govern-ment has come to an agree-ment with WestWing Aviationto ensure air services operatein these communities,” he said.
“This is a short-term ar-rangement while my depart-ment speaks to privateoperators about their plans forthis region.”
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Cairns Post, Cairns QLD13 Jan 2015, by Nika Ume
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2018 deadline looms as LNP plans for light rail’s
KATHLEEN SKENETHE Queensland Govern-ment has not even approachedtheir Federal Governmentcounterparts for help withstage two of the light rail, Act-ing Prime Minister WarrenTruss revealed yesterday.
“That’s – that hasn’t beenput to us actually, notofficially,” he said.
“Well, not really even unof-ficially, because it’s not gener-ally the kind of thing we’ve
been funding. But we’vecertainly got a very busy roadand rail program that we willbe funding.”
Asked if he’d completelyrule out federal funding of theextension, Mr Truss said “wehaven’t been approached”.
Despite having the supportof Premier Campbell Newman,Transport Minister Scott Em-erson, most local LNP MPsand Gold Coasters, the vitaltransport is yet to receive theofficial green light from theGovernment.
It is understood it will taketwo and a half years to buildand test the extension before itcan take passengers, meaningit has to start by March to beready before the 2018 Com-monwealth Games.
Plans for a second-stageconnection to the heavy railstation at Helensvale havebeen in progress for months,and Queensland Transportlast year awarded a contractworth $1,392,733 for “engineer-ing and technical advisory ser-vices” for the Gold Coast Light
Rail stage two. Treasurer TimNicholls, on the Coast toannounce the exit 54 upgrade,said more planning was need-ed before the plan was funded.
“We’ve always been sup-portive of the consideration ofthe light rail and the extensionof the light rail but we havealways said we’ll do that in avery planned and methodicalway,” he said.
“We want to make sure thatwe get the best outcome in avalue-for-money sense forQueenslanders.”
There’s still no green light for stage two of the light rail.
next stage Mr Nicholls was reluctantto give any pre-2018 pledge onhow long that methodicalplanning would take.
“We’ll look at the businesscase,” he said. “Rushed projectsare always the projects thatcost more, like this one at Exit54; we’ve worked very care-fully with the town centredevelopers, we’ve worked withour colleagues at a federal levelto make sure we get the bestoutcome and we’ll be doing thesame throughout Queens-land.”
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Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD13 Jan 2015, by Kathleen Skene
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Animal oddities keep Coast’s airport staff on toesSHAYA LAUGHLIN
A WITCHES’ brew of frog fill-ets, horse hair and a bear clawwere among the many weirditems intercepted by biosecuri-ty officers at the Gold Coastairport last year.
“Biosecurity officers haveintercepted some seriouslystrange stuff at the Gold Coastthis year,” minister for agricul-ture Barnaby Joyce said. “Akilo and a half of skinned frogs,
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a ceremonial head-mask ofhorse hair (which was)crawling with live bugs, as wellas bear claw all tried to findtheir way into Australiathrough the Gold Coast.
“All of these items can carryplant and animal pests and dis-eases that could devastate ourlocal animal population.”
But these finds weren’t justone-offs – biosecurity officers
had a big year at the GoldCoast where they seized anddestroyed more than a tonneof food brought in by travellersfrom overseas.
With the help of scientificexpertise, they also stopped230kg of grains and legumes,170kg of meat and 110kg of ap-ples and pears.
Ms Joyce said that expertiseand knowledge were behindthe impressive results.
“All of our biosecurity workonshore, offshore and at theborder has a deep and solid
foundation in science,” shesaid. “The department em-ploys about 900 scientists tomake sure our agricultural in-dustries are protected.”
Ms Joyce said an outbreakof foot-and-mouth disease inAustralia would cost the econ-omy more than $52 billion
over the course of a decade.“The community has a big
role to play here in protectingour human, plant and animalhealth from these pests anddiseases by being biosecurityaware,” she said.
Skinned frogs and a bear claw seized at Gold Coast Airport.
A ceremonial mask of horse hair crawling with live bugs.
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Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD13 Jan 2015, by Shaya Laughlin
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Pacific in class ofits own with VirginDAVE BURGESS
KIWIS travelling across the Tas-man and on Pacific Island routeswill soon be tucking into foodcreated by award-winning chefLuke Mangan thanks to a newbusiness class service being intro-duced by Virgin Australia.
A progressive refit on 10 of theairline’s Boeing 737 fleet will seethe aircraft reconfigured with the2-2 business class configuration –that’s two seats on either side ofthe aisle – featuring luxury leatherseating with enough leg room foreven the most strapping traveller.
The Sydney to Auckland routewill be the first to offer businessclass, from February 28, with faresstarting from $730. All otherservices will come into effect onMarch 31, including those fromWellington.
Virgin Australia chief commer-cial officer Judith Crompton saidVirgin Australia was renownedfor its business class offeringwithin Australia and they werethrilled to be bringing the serviceto the trans-Tasman and PacificIsland routes.
‘‘These markets are a very im-portant focus for us, given thegrowth in business travel betweenAustralia and New Zealand andwe are committed to offering greatvalue business class fares.
‘‘The rollout . . . completes ourpremium customer propositionacross key international marketsand, importantly, allows us to de-liver a more consistent customer
experience in conjunction withour alliance partner, Air New Zea-land.’’
The new service also includesnew priority services includingcheck-in and boarding.
Menus are designed byMangan, Virgin Australia’s con-sulting chef, who has hit celebrity
status in Australia.Virgin Australia founder Sir
Richard Branson has sungMangan’s praises. ‘‘He’s an entre-preneur and you have to be morethan just a chef to become a suc-cessful chef these days, you haveto be media savvy, good on TV. Alot of the job is promoting yourselfand promoting your business andhe does that well.
‘‘But in the end you’re only asgood as the product, so you can’tbe all fluff and puff, you’ve got tohave substance behind you, andhe’s got substance.’’
Aside from Mangan’s rolewith Virgin Australia, he ownsand operates restaurants in Surf-ers Paradise, Jakarta, Bali,Singapore, Tokyo, two in Sydney,and three outlets on P&O cruiseliners.
A full range of Australian beersand wines will be available.
The introduction of businessclass on Virgin Australia’s flightsfrom Wellington comes as otherairlines introduce new routesservicing the capital.
Jet Star has introduced directflights to the Gold Coast and Mel-bourne, while Fiji Airways flies toFiji.
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Room to move: Virgin Australia’s new trans-Tasman business class seats are luxurious.
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Stop taking us fora ride says airline
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AIRNORTH has threatenedto ban passengers who choosethe airline’s cheapest availableoption for flying between Dar-win, Gove and Cairns.
As a result of “aggressivecompetition” on the airline’sDarwin to Cairns service,which stops at Gove, the air-line has discounted its flights,but has maintained its higherprices between Darwin andGove, where it is the only oper-ator.
One-way “Air Saver” flightson the 646km Darwin to Goveroute are available for between$379 and $409, while a flighton the 1680km Cairns to Dar-win route costs $399.
The price difference is mostapparent on the 1094kmCairns to Gove route, wherepassengers will pay as much as$599 for an “Air Saver” ticket.
Airnorth CEO MichaelBridge said the company wasaware of a number of passen-gers who disembarked duringthe flight’s stopover in order to
circumvent the expensiveCairns to Gove tickets, andthat the practice was “againstthe fare rules in our conditionsof carriage”.
Mr Bridge said the airlinewas keeping tabs on passen-gers who take advantage of theloophole in the airline’s ticket-ing, and they could be black-listed from future travel.
“Airnorth have visibility ofall passenger travel on our ser-vices including any passengerswho fail to board their ongoing
sector on a through-airfareticket,” he said.
He said the airline could goso far as to ban passengersfrom flying on Airnorth if theydid so, and said the airline’sservices to Gove might not beable to survive people takingadvantage of the loophole inthe airline’s ticketing system.
“(Taking advantage of theloophole) has the potential tonot only impact a passenger’sfuture travel on Airnorth butwill also have a wider impact on
the ongoing viability of air ser-vices for Nhulunbuy residentsand those in the surroundingcommunities,” he said.
One Gove local, who oftenflies between Gove and Cairns,said locals were helpless in theface of Airnorth ticket prices,which he says have risen dra-matically since the airline firstbegan operating in Darwin.
“I suppose it’s the ruthless-ness of the commodity,” hesaid. “If you need the ticket,you pay the fare.”
DARWIN GOVE
CAIRNS
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1680km
DISTANCES BETWEEN DARWIN, GOVE AND CAIRNS
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Northern Territory News, Darwin13 Jan 2015, by CRAIG DUNLOP
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Break silence on Skytrans crashWELL said Roland H Ziegler!(“Skytrans demise warrantssome answers,” 10-01-15. ).
The deafening silence fromthe LNP members for Cairns,Barron River and Cook needsexplaining. A respected, longestablished airline has beenput out of business, without aword of resistance from thosein political control. Some havesuggested that the contractwas reallocated fairly, on pure-
ly financial grounds. The min-ister for transport has said thatthe system is a long standingone. If that is so, then I suggestthat the whole contract systemis in urgent need of review, totake into account the wide-spread knock on effects to ourregional community.
I understand that themoney difference between thetwo bids was only $200,000; apaltry amount, when the directand indirect costs of closingdown the business are calcu-lated. Staff payouts, 178 staffout of work and onto Centre-link benefits, local suppliersand subcontractors disadvan-taged, profits made by REX
will go to NSW and that air-line’s owners. I understandthat REX will not be able tooffer a Cairns-Mt. Isa servicefor up to six months. Regionalaviation expertise is lost. Thelist goes on.
I await explanations fromour elected members for thisappalling outcome.
However, I am cynicalenough to not hold my breath!
Nick Watling, Smithfield GROUNDED: Someone needs to answer for the Skytrans demise.
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MANAGER EXPLAINS | Weather conditions, aircraft engineering, other factors cause issues
Aviation delays all‘part of industry’Shakira [email protected]
FLIGHT delays are just“part and parcel” of avia-tion operations, accordingto the general manager ofMackay Airport.A Jetstar flight fromMackay toBrisbanewas de-layed for more than sevenhours on Sunday. It comesafter a Virgin Australiaflight from Brisbane toMackay was held up formore than six hours by badweather onWednesday lastweek.But Mackay Airport gen-eral manager Rob Portersaid flight delays due toweather conditions, air-craft engineering issuesand other factors were partand parcel of aviation oper-ations.“All airlineswork to keepdelays to aminimum for theconvenience of their pas-sengers and the efficientoperations of their net-works,” Mr Porter said.The airport always
worked alongside to helpwhere they could in the
event of delays, he said.“Mackay Airport facili-tates all its airline partnersand their passenger asappropriate when they areexperiencing delays.”Flight JQ883 from Mack-ay to Brisbane was delayedon Sunday due to engineer-ing requirements, a Jetstarspokeswoman said.“An engineer was flown
up from Brisbane, and sub-sequently required parts tobe delivered from the GoldCoast, which extended thedelay into the afternoon,leading the original flight tobe cancelled,” she said.Other arrangementswere made later in the af-ternoon to accommodatethe passengers.“Passengers who chose
to fly after the delay wererecovered across the nextavailable Jetstar flightJQ889 around 4.30pm aswell as a Qantas flight at7pm,” she said.“We apologise for theinconvenience experiencedby those passengers as weworked to fix the aircraft,and appreciate theirpatience.”
❝The flight fromMackay to Brisbane wasdelayed due to engineering requirements.
– Jetstar spokeswoman
DELAYED passengers havevented their frustration onthe Daily MercuryFacebook page.We asked our DailyMercury Facebook friendswhat was the longestflight delay they’dexperienced.“Mackay to Brisbane,six hours delayed andthen cancelled,” Renee
Dibben said.“Left the airport at11.30pm and flightrescheduled to 10.30amfollowing day.“I had a five-year-oldand eight-week-oldbubba.”
Meanwhile, YvonneCoxon said she waitedlonger than this for aconnecting flight.“Waiting 12 hours inMackay Airport,” she said.“Waiting to go toCanberra via Brisbane.”In comparison, MarionSquire said her Sydney toBrisbane flight was onlydelayed an hour.
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Daily Mercury, Mackay QLD13 Jan 2015, by Shakira Sellen
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