Bonza, CEO, Tim Jordan, at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit 2023
Bonza, CEO, Tim Jordan, spoke to CAPA TV at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit 2023 in Brisbane about latest industry trends and company developments.
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Transcript
Tim Jordan:We have our current fleet of 4 aircraft, so Shazza, Bazza, Sheila, and Malk, as we lovingly call them. And those aircraft, what we will add to those aircraft is 2 wet lease aircraft coming from our sister airline Flair. in Canada. Clearly, with the Canadian winter driving significant seasonality, they're able to make available 2 aircraft to us so that for our peak season through the December, January, February period, we're able to take our fleet up to 6 aircraft on a wet lease basis and launch the Gold Coast base. in time for the peak summer travel period. What we will then do is, as those aircraft then return and crew return to Canada, we will then replace those aircraft with our own aircraft into early 2024. Later in 2024, we will see, subject to us obviously justifying the need, To our investors, we will look to grow additional aircraft, both in terms of potentially adding aircraft to existing bases, but also looking to potentially add additional bases into 2024 and beyond. 2 aircraft will be based initially on the, on the Gold Coast. They, as at today, we have 12 routes into and out of the Gold Coast base. 9 of those routes, very importantly, are not serviced by any other airline. And that's obviously very, very important to us. We're not about doing the same as the other guys. We're about driving new market and stimulating new market and giving everybody, the many, the opportunity to travel. And the Gold Coast is really just an extension of what we've already put into the market. At both the Sunshine Coast, our home, but additionally at Melbourne Tullamarine as well.
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