Jetstar Pacific Airlines

Tan Son Nhat International Airport

Jetstar Pacific Airlines, Jetstar Pacific often abbreviated until 2008 Pacific Airlines is a Vietnamese low-cost airline based in Ho Chi Minh City. It acts as a Vietnam - Division of the Australian low- cost carrier Jetstar Airways. It serves only domestic routes. Majority shareholder, the Vietnam Airlines.

History

Jetstar Pacific was founded by a decision of the Vietnamese government in 1991 as Pacific Airlines. As of 1996, Pacific Airlines flew under the umbrella of Vietnam Airlines Corporation. In 2005, the airline achieved its independence again and tried it to assert itself as the first airline in Vietnam cheap flight segment. However, you wrote this great loss.

Shortly thereafter, in June 2007 increased the Australian airline Qantas, which built a low cost offshoot Jetstar, into business and acquired a 18 percent stake in partially privatized and loss-making airline At that time, Pacific Airlines, the second largest airline in the country, mainly on result is that Vietnam Airlines had a monopoly.

On 14 November 2007, the participating company Qantas Airways ordered 40 Airbus A320 family and secured a further 40 options. The exact division between Pacific Airlines, Jetstar Airways and Jetstar Asia Airways was not initially disclosed. Later it was announced that it planned that Jetstar Pacific was to operate until 2014 a total of 15 Airbus A320.

In May 2008, Pacific Airlines was renamed Jetstar Pacific. Here, IATA and ICAO codes as well as the call sign were retained.

In December of the same year 2008, the first Airbus A320 was eingeflottet again; Middle of the first decade of the 21st century already units of this type were used at Pacific Airlines. This is a used machine that is leased from Aircastle. The aircraft now carries the registration VN - A195 with 180 seats and has the maximum seating for this aircraft type.

2009, the Qantas share rose to Jetstar Pacific to 27 percent. Main shareholder with a share of 70 per cent was a state investment company SCIC ( State Capital Investment Corporation ) from Vietnam. The remaining shares were held by various other Vietnamese investors. Jetstar Pacific had grown strong and transported in 2009 approximately 2 million passengers in a passenger load factor of 85 percent. For Jetstar Pacific operates daily through 42 flights, profitability was achieved anyway.

In October came the Einflottung a second Airbus A320, this time new plants. The aircraft is also leased and also has 180 seats. 2013, the last Boeing 737-400 ausgeflottert and be unified in the usual at Jetstar Airbus A320 family.

Since February 2012, Vietnam Airlines holds 66.93 % of Jetstar Pacific, 30 % belong to the Qantas Group. The remaining shares are held by various other Vietnamese investors. Vietnam Airlines makes the company to continue under its current name and thus pursues a two-brand strategy. As a foreign company Qantas must for legal reasons a maximum of 49 percent stopped at a Vietnamese airline. The State Capital Investment Coorperation had in 2008 asked the government for permission to sell its shares in the amount of 70 percent to sell because of high deficits.

Until October 2011 Jetstar Pacific was not able to set up a profitable flight operations. For 2009, Jetstar Pacific had accounted for a loss of 31 million U.S. dollars.

Awards

  • Jetstar Pacific has the most visited commercial website from Vietnam. She received the appropriate Awards 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Service

Jetstar Pacific is a low cost airline. Thus, there is little on the flight benefits. For Jetstar Pacific, for example for meals must be paid, which is possible only in cash. Checked baggage is also not included in the base price, but also must be booked, and it is best if you book the luggage during the flight booking. Subsequent posting on the Internet is available for a surcharge, the Sign of the baggage at the airport is the most expensive .. To carry as many passengers in an aircraft, the aircraft are meeting very tight. But on average, prices are much lower than in other airlines.

Compared to other low -cost carriers Jetstar Jetstar Pacific as well as pursuing a slightly different policy: So Jetstar is one of the few low cost airlines that rely heavily on transfer traffic. Jetstar also offers a telephone hotline.

Destinations

Jetstar Pacific flies itself currently only domestic flights. From Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City, she flies to the objectives of Buon Ma Thuot, Da Nang, Haiphong, Nha Trang, Phu Quoc and Vinh.

From the summer of 2014 will be added as more domestic destinations Da Lạt, Can Tho and the first international flying to Bangkok, Hong Kong and Singapore.

However, international services are also found in the program which, conducted by its sister companies Jetstar Asia Airways flights from Singapore to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are, the latter objective is also served by the Australian mother Jetstar Airways also from Darwin.

The budget airline, which sets as the other companies on Jetstar transit station compounds, also maintains a interline agreement with Air France -KLM, Cathay Pacific, Dragonair, Finnair and Qatar Airways.

Fleet

As of February 2014, the fleet of Jetstar Pacific Airlines from seven aircraft is with a mean age of 8.5 years:

  • 7 Airbus A320 -200

All A320s have reached the maximum seating with 180 seats. The leather seats are 454 mm ( 17.88 inches ) wide with a row spacing of 737 mm (29 inches ).

During the year 2014, three more A320s added to ( international) to enable the operation of other airlines.

In your time as Pacific Airlines had operated at the time many other fleet pattern. So Pacific Airlines has already sought in its history airplanes of the type Airbus A300 -600, Airbus A310 -300, Airbus A320 -200, Airbus A321 -100, Boeing 737-200, Boeing 737-300, Boeing 737-400, McDonnell -Douglas MD -82 and McDonnell -Douglas MD -90. However, the fleet was unified by 2008 Boeing 737-400, so it was renamed the Jetstar Pacific from four aircraft of type Boeing 737-400. A fifth was issued shortly after the renaming. In the years 2008-2013 six Airbus A320 -200 were added to the fleet, this aircraft was already mid- 00s in service with Air Pacific. Since 2013, the Airbus A320 is the only aircraft type Jetstar Pacific, A320s are to follow.

Used until 2009 Jetstar Pacific the same paint as Jetstar. At the direction of the Minister of Transport Ho Nghia Dũng the logo of the business partner since November 2009 Jetstar will no longer re- attached to aircraft and is currently only at the oldest A320 (VN - A195, built in 1999, and since 2008 at Jetstar Pacific ) to see. The planes are now painted silver gray with orange underside, the name and address of the airline are written on the fuselage above the windows.

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