Jetconnect is an airline based in Auckland, New Zealand. It is a subsidiary company of Qantas. It was established in July 2002 and started operations in October 2002. It operates trans-tasman services between New Zealand and Australia under the Qantas brand. It employs crew based in New Zealand and operates aircraft registered in New Zealand. It also operated domestic services within New Zealand until these services were taken over by Jetstar on 10 June 2009. Its main base is Auckland Airport.[1]
Destinations
International Short-Haul
As of 19 August 2009, Jetconnect operated flights to the following destinations. Some routes are shared with Qantas mainline — on these routes some services will be operated by Jetconnect and other services will be operated by Qantas itself.[2]
- Auckland
- to Brisbane (twice daily)
- to Melbourne (three times daily)
- to Sydney (three times daily alongside two other Qantas mainline 767 services)
- Wellington
- to Melbourne (daily)
- to Sydney (twice daily)
International Long-Haul
Jetconnect employs longhaul cabin crew based out of Auckland, who make up crew complement on Qantas flights throughout the longhaul network, feeding into the system by way of flights from Auckland. The crew operate as contractors who are therefore cheaper to employ than Australian based full-time employees.[citation needed]
The airline's cabin crew are also responsible for crewing Jetstar flights based out of Christchurch to Brisbane, Coolangatta (Gold Coast), Melbourne and Sydney.[citation needed]
Domestic
Jetconnect operated domestic flights in New Zealand until 9 June 2009. The final domestic service was QF2728 from Wellington to Auckland operated by 737-300 ZK-JNC. Domestic services included routes between Auckland, Wellington, Rotorua, Christchurch and Queenstown.[3] Services between Auckland, Christchurch, Queenstown and Wellington have been replaced with Jetstar services. Services to Rotorua have been withdrawn.[4]
Fleet
Jetconnect Boeing 737-300 at Sydney Airport. Jetconnect's fleet was painted in Qantas colours, but without the "Spirit of Australia" slogan found on Qantas' Australian-registered aircraft. Now Jetconnect's fleet are in full Qantas colours
As of December 2009 the Jetconnect fleet consists of:[5][6]
Fleet
| Aircraft |
Operating |
Orders |
Passengers
(Business/Economy) |
Routes |
Notes |
| Boeing 737-400 |
4 |
0 |
142 (16/126)[7] |
Trans-Tasman |
Three aircraft in new Qantas livery. |
| Boeing 737-800 |
3 |
0 |
168 (12/156) |
Trans-Tasman |
|
The 737-400 aircraft were formerly operated by Trans Australia Airlines/Australian Airlines and Qantas. The 737-800 aircraft are brand-new. The last 737-300 aircraft (ZK-JNC) operated its final service on 21 October 2009. ZK-JNC also had the distinction of operating the final Qantas Domestic New Zealand service on 9 June 2009.
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