Business Case for the SunShine CoaSt airport Master Plan

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• Qantas Group firm orders reduce from 65 to 50 aircraft, comprising 35 B787-9s (down
from 50) and 15 B787-8s.
• The Group's first 15 aircraft will be B787-9s for Jetstar's international operations, and
will be delivered from mid-2013. Jetstar was to take delivery of 15 smaller B787-8s in
mid-2010; has been operating six Airbus A330s whilst waiting delivery.
• 15 B787-8s follow over the 12 months from the fourth quarter of 2014 for Qantas'
Australian domestic operations and to retire the remaining Qantas B767-300 fleet.
• 20 B787-9s, to be used for both Qantas and Jetstar international operations, will be
delivered from the fourth quarter of 2015 through to 2017.
• Qantas retains the ability to purchase up to 50 additional aircraft.
The Qantas Group has continued to make changes to its international and domestic services.
The changes include capacity cuts and the replacement of Qantas services with Jetstar services
on a number of routes.
Jetstar cancelled/suspended routes include: Sydney-Whitsunday Coast, Adelaide-Sunshine
Coast, Brisbane-Hobart, Sydney-Hervey Bay, and Melbourne-Ballina.
Jetstar has replaced Qantas on routes including: Perth-Denpasar, Perth-Jakarta, Perth-Cairns,
Cairns-Tokyo, and on all New Zealand domestic routes.
Other routes new to (or planned for) Jetstar during 2009 include: Auckland-Gold Coast,
Auckland-Sydney, Adelaide-Perth, Cairns-Gold Coast, Perth-Sydney, and Cairns-Osaka.
Virgin Group
Phases I-III of Virgin Blue’s capacity management plans saw 2008/09 domestic capacity cut
from a budgeted 20.2% to 4.5%. Phase IV saw a further cut to 2.4%. The impact of these
cuts would see 2009/10 domestic growth at negative 2.4%. Most recently Virgin Blue has
announced that FY10 planned domestic capacity is down around 5% and FY11 will be flat.
Virgin Blue routes cancelled during 2008 include Sydney-Proserpine, and Melbourne-Darwin.
Australian domestic schedules were revised following the de-scheduling of the five Boeing
737 aircraft from May 2009; the capacity reduction equated to the removal of 28 flights daily
from a total of over 330 domestic daily services. The latest reductions applied to high
frequency routes, with no market withdrawals.
Virgin Blue has received all six Embraer E-170s it had ordered and thirteen of the eighteen
ordered E-190s; five E-190s were deferred into 2010/2011. Five new domestic services had
commenced in April 2009 redeploying some the Embraer fleet: Canberra to Hobart and
Townsville, and Townsville to Gold Coast, Rockhampton and Cairns.
Other routes new to (or planned for) Virgin Blue during 2009 include: Darwin to Melbourne
and Perth, Sydney to Hamilton Island, and Perth to Port Hedland.
The Pacific Blue fleet has been increased by the redeployment of Virgin Blue’s B737’s,
allowing an expansion of its services including: new direct services to Denpasar from Sydney
and Melbourne, to Fiji from Adelaide and Melbourne, and to Sydney and Brisbane from four
new NZ ports.