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Perth Airport

Perth Airport is the main gateway to the Perth metropolitan area and the state of Western Australia. Hosting domestic, regional and international passenger and cargo services for over 20 airlines, the airport is a regional hub for Qantas Airways, Skywest Airlines and National Jet.

Location of Perth Airport, Australia

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Australian aviation market shows signs of slowdown just as airlines were enjoying yield premiums

4-Apr-12 4:34 PM

There are now clear signs the Australian aviation market is entering a light slowdown, with carriers adding capacity ahead of demand while airfares decline marginally. This will affect the region's carriers differently and they should all fare better than counterparts elsewhere in the world; notably, the market in Australia is still growing, but not as fast. Most exposed are Qantas mainline and Tiger Airways Australia. The former has been slowly losing some corporate business to Virgin Australia and competes with a higher cost base.

Tiger is suffering from group-wide over-capacity and would not be able to redeploy capacity as readily. Unlike Tiger, Jetstar has a healthy and rapidly growing pan-Asian network that can absorb any surplus capacity and at a higher margin even than in Australia. Virgin Australia is seeing yield growth from its transition to a business carrier, growth that should overcome any weakness in the more leisure-exposed areas of its business.

AirAsia X continues concentration theme with Christchurch withdrawal as ultra-long-haul loses favour

16-Mar-12 4:18 PM

AirAsia X is continuing to act on its concentration plan to build scale in key markets rather than spread itself out. The Kuala Lumpur-based low-cost long-haul carrier is withdrawing services to Christchurch and increasing capacity to Perth and Taipei. The withdrawal from Christchurch is despite high load factors, indicating – as with the carrier's withdrawals from London and Paris – the problem is of yield on ultra-long-haul sectors where an LCC's lower cost base has less advantage as fuel comprises a greater share of costs than on shorter sectors.

The withdrawal of four-weekly services to Christchurch, effective at the end of May-2012, will remove AirAsia X's longest flight, leaving all other services – primarily to Australia and North Asia – in a five-to-eight hour range. Previously the carrier's longest flights were to Paris and London, although operated with A340s instead of A330s to Christchurch, but AirAsia X announced in Jan-2012 that Paris and London would be suspended by the end of Mar-2012.

Qantas CEO, Alan Joyce Qantas cuts international services to grow profitable domestic market as Jetstar grows all around

17-Feb-12 12:49 PM

Qantas is making significant competitive responses to invigorated challenger Virgin Australia’s push in the lucrative Australian domestic market. Qantas will withdraw international routes and re-allocate aircraft primarily to the domestic market to keep the 65% market share it believes is optimal for overall performance. Additional network changes will right-size its fleet to demand while the company looks to shrink engineering facilities due to aircraft retirements. For its planned Asia-based premium carrier, Qantas will pursue a capital light option in which an airline partner – likely Malaysia Airlines (MAS) – shares part of the risk.

The story is more positive overall at the group’s low-cost subsidiary Jetstar, which posted its largest-ever underlying profit. The carrier is benefitting from increased yields in Australia while its Singapore operation has held up profitably despite its competition, Tiger Airways, not being able to profitably absorb significant capacity increments.

Fatigue risk management rules challenge LCC cost reductions as safety issues are constantly reviewed

10-Feb-12 1:45 PM

Low-cost airlines have increasingly scheduled back-of-the-clock flights departing late at night or early in the morning, but regulators are now placing greater emphasis on new issues in pilot fatigue risk management. That in turn is seeing some airlines lose operational advantages and incur a higher cost base, even if arguably justified on safety grounds.

New regulations from India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) are impacting Air India’s LCC subsidiary, Air India Express. Previously the DGCA’s duty limitations did not differentiate between when duty time was occurring, but now the country’s pilots will be limited to seven-hour duty times instead of nine hours if the duty is for back-of-the-clock flights (officially the window of circadian low, occurring between 02:00 and 06:00). The ruling is applicable for domestic and regional flights.

Tiger Australia Incoming Managing Director, Andrew David Tiger Australia settles in for medium-term with new director but growth restrictions and lower fares

3-Oct-11 4:03 PM

Tiger Airways Australia is settling in for the medium-term with a re-launched network it has built up, which is now approximately one-third of its Jun-2011 pre-grounding size. The immediate future will see former Virgin Blue executive Andrew David take the reigns from Tony Davis, who is leaving the company.

Tiger is also lowering its lead-in fares to pre-grounding levels, but no headline fares of AUD15 inclusive or zero (plus taxes) have been offered yet, and may not be as long as Tiger faces no price undercutting and seeks to build network volume with requisite approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). Its growth outlook is focused on Melbourne Tullamarine, with service resumption from Melbourne Avalon unlikely in the next year.

MAp prepares for a solitary life at Sydney; AIX sees strong and consistent EBITDA growth

14-Sep-11 11:30 AM

Two of Australia’s most significant operators/investors, MAp Airports and Australia Infrastructure Fund (AIX) have recently released their financial results for the six months (MAp) and 12 months (AIX) to 30-Jun-2011, respectively. While MAp repositions to concentrate on Sydney, AIX, which retains a small interest there for now via Hochtief Airport Capital, reports strong EBITDA growth at all but one of its invested Australian and foreign airports.

In the case of MAp, the period was one of transition as it negotiated the asset swap arrangement with Canada’s OTPP, which will navigate it away from involvement in Europe towards a refocus on Australia and especially Sydney. Copenhagen and Brussels airports were very much part of the portfolio during the reported period. According to CEO Kerrie Mather the (1H2011) period was one in which “MAp delivered a strong operational and financial performance". Pro forma EBITDA grew 4.1% and each of the airports achieved traffic growth in a challenging environment which has included multiple natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific, and unrest in the Middle East and North Africa.

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