KLIA - A Hub?

Jetstar had just announced that they will discontinue Kuala Lumpur-Sydney route after September 2008. This is not a surprise news but a very sad news indeed. It is not a surprise because Qantas, Jetstar parent company, had announced a few days earlier that they will reduce their flight capacity. And other airline companies like RyanAir and British Airways also had announced that the plan to reduce capacity is in the pipeline, depending on the jet fuel price in the market.

I guess, in trying times like these, it is better for airline companies to rationalise their routes and only fly to routes that will the most yield possible. Actually, the most optimum route would be the route that will give the highest revenue per available seat-kilometre (RASK). And according to Jetstar, the reason for the withdrawal from Kuala Lumpur was to free up airplanes to fly to Japan. So, I guess, we can now say that the Japan routes generate more RASK than Kuala Lumpur.

This is a sad news because, there had been rumours about Jetstar wanting to use Kuala Lumpur as a stopover to launch Europe routes. But, hey, I guess we can throw that rumour out of the window by now. There you go, just another blow to Kuala Lumpur in its dream to compete with Singapore and Bangkok as a regional air transport hub.

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