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V Australia commenced services between Los Angeles and Sydney in February 2009, and<br />

Los-Angeles-Brisbane services in April. Services between Los Angeles and Melbourne are to<br />

commence in September.<br />

Tiger Airways<br />

Tiger Airways suspended its Melbourne-Newcastle services from August 2008 and cancelled<br />

its Darwin-Melbourne and Darwin-Singapore services from October 2008.<br />

In March 2009 Tiger opened a new hub in Adelaide and added five new routes to its network;<br />

Adelaide to Alice Springs, Canberra, Gold Coast, Hobart, and to Perth. Adelaide-Perth<br />

services are to be suspended from October 2009.<br />

In July 2009 <strong>the</strong> airline commenced new services from Sydney to Adelaide and to Melbourne.<br />

The airline has nine A320s in Singapore, plus two A319s. Four A320s are based in<br />

Melbourne and two A320s in Adelaide. Tiger recently announced that it will add a fifth<br />

aircraft to its Melbourne <strong>airport</strong> base be<strong>for</strong>e <strong>the</strong> start of <strong>the</strong> Australian summer. The delivery<br />

will see Tiger's Australian fleet grow to seven aircraft. Firm orders bring <strong>the</strong> total aircraft<br />

commitment to 72; Tiger has reported that up to 30 of <strong>the</strong> new aircraft could come to<br />

Australia.<br />

AirAsia X<br />

AirAsia X commenced Australian international services in November 2007; currently operates<br />

services from <strong>the</strong> Gold Coast, Perth and Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur.<br />

AirAsia Indonesia commenced daily Perth-Denpasar services in July 2009. AirAsia Indonesia<br />

has six Airbus A320 aircraft.<br />

AirAsia X operates with four aircraft (three Airbus A330s and one Airbus A340).<br />

The airline has recently ordered 10 Airbus A350-900s, with <strong>the</strong> option of 5 more, to be used to<br />

link its Kuala Lumpur hub with destinations worldwide, especially in Europe and Australia.<br />

Deliveries <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> A350s are scheduled between 2016 and 2018.<br />

AirAsia X’s previous order of 25 A330s is scheduled <strong>for</strong> delivery through 2015 with two<br />

already delivered.<br />

(2) Australasian Full Service Airlines<br />

Qantas<br />

While announcing capacity cuts (see Jetstar above) Qantas intends to proceed with its major<br />

fleet re-equipment program of new and more fuel efficient aircraft such as <strong>the</strong> A380 and<br />

B787.<br />

Tactical network changes include:<br />

• Jetstar establishing an A320 aircraft operation in Auckland, and growing its trans-<br />

Tasman frequencies.<br />

• Jetstar becoming <strong>the</strong> largest Qantas Group operator on <strong>the</strong> Australia–Japan route.<br />

• Removal of first-class offerings from <strong>the</strong> San Francisco, Buenos Aires and Melbourne-<br />

Hong Kong-London routes following <strong>the</strong> decline in premium demand.<br />

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