News & Discussion: Adelaide Airport & Airlines

[cocoiadrop]

It's still located outside the terminal. You need to go through ground floor (baggage area) of the terminal to access it but it's still not where passengers go.

[Brucetiki]

It's still located outside the terminal. You need to go through ground floor (baggage area) of the terminal to access it but it's still not where passengers go.

I would say it's down the international arrivals end (as opposed to the baggage area at the opposite end of the ground floor).

There's no clear signage to the display either, it was by wandering through the corridor between the terminal and the hotel that we managed to find it.

Having said that, if you park at Ikea, there is a path with plaques commemorating every stop on the journey. If you follow the plaques, you'll be able to see the exhibit from the last plaque.

[rev]

.....and a tram from the CBD down Henley Beach Road to just outside the terminal.

That would be 2033.....if we're lucky !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiZRVC81qJo

Perth can, Adelaide never will.

[abc]

Perth is nearly twice the size and gets more than twice the number of visitors from either interstate or overseas than Adelaide

getting to/from Adelaide airport into town is one of the easiest trips in Australia
a cab or bus is more than adequate for the foreseeable future

[AG]

Vietjet has indicated that it will launch direct flights from Adelaide to Ho Chi Minh City later this year, after launching direct flights from Sydney and Melbourne in April.

https://www.executivetraveller.com/news ... -minh-city

[Saltwater]

Jetstar will also base two A321's in Adelaide and use them for Bali lights, increasing capacity:

https://www.travelnewsasia.com/news23/1 ... Bali.shtml

Personally I'm not a fan, having travelled on an Air NZ A321 to Auckland. A four+ hour flight in a single aisle feels very cramped, there's a toilet halfway along the economy section, and it takes forever to unload (lots of fun when people sitting right at the back had to get off in a hurry because their connecting flights to the US were waiting for them!). But if they are basing two and potentially adding more it could mean more flights from Adelaide to new destinations. The A321's range opens up possibilities of Adelaide - Singapore or Adelaide - Christchurch, which I'd love to see.

[Norman]

I've recently booked a flight on Singapore Airlines and even two months ahead the plane is almost booked out. Meanwhile, the same flight out of Melbourne is priced cheaper and has fewer bookings. Surely it's time to increase the frequency or get some more carriers on board, because the demand is clearly there.

[Brucetiki]

Jetstar will also base two A321's in Adelaide and use them for Bali lights, increasing capacity:

https://www.travelnewsasia.com/news23/1 ... Bali.shtml

Personally I'm not a fan, having travelled on an Air NZ A321 to Auckland. A four+ hour flight in a single aisle feels very cramped, there's a toilet halfway along the economy section, and it takes forever to unload (lots of fun when people sitting right at the back had to get off in a hurry because their connecting flights to the US were waiting for them!). But if they are basing two and potentially adding more it could mean more flights from Adelaide to new destinations. The A321's range opens up possibilities of Adelaide - Singapore or Adelaide - Christchurch, which I'd love to see.

You would get very few, if any, people transiting in Bali on Jetstar though (though I'm aware KLM use Jetstar to connect passengers onto their flights from Bali).

[Saltwater]

I'm wondering if Jetstar (or Virgin who also recently started flying to Bali) might start selling connecting tickets to passengers from Christchurch, or regional places like Albury / Mildura. Adelaide airport's size makes it great to connect from domestic to international, especially compared to the nightmare that is SYD. Personally I'd love to see a direct Adelaide - CHC connection as I have family over there and the only way currently is via Melbourne / Sydney, or the Air NZ flight via Auckland that cuts it very fine making the last flight to Christchurch out at night.

[rogue]

Adelaide Airport chief outlines grand plan to fly direct to 37 major world cities

South Australians will be flying high in coming years on news Adelaide Airport has “realistic” plans to have direct services to around 37 major cities. See where and when.

Brad Crouch
3 min read
February 17, 2023 - 6:00PM

Imagine a non-stop Adelaide flight to New York. Or London, New Delhi, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg or Santiago.

Adelaide Airport general manager Brenton Cox has these destinations and more on his radar with the airport’s Network Vision 2050 plan for direct flights to 37 cities.

While he says the chart makes some people “choke on their corn flakes”, the ambition is to make some of the world’s great cities a non-stop flight from Adelaide.

Mr Cox has outlined the state of play at the airport and its big plans for the future, noting international air traffic to Adelaide is on an upward trajectory after collapsing when Covid effectively halted overseas travel.

By December the airport was back to 89 per cent of pre-pandemic capacity including 63 per cent of international flights – but just a month later international flights had soared to 70 per cent and climbing as confidence and customers return.

“The good thing is everything is heading in the right direction,” he said.

Key carriers Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Air New Zealand, Malaysia Airlines, Fiji Airways as well as Virgin and Jetstar have resumed international services.

Mr Cox believes China Southern will resume flights this year, and expects Emirates and Cathay Pacific eventually to return.

He explained the huge investment needed to win a direct flight between North America and Adelaide.

“If you want a daily service you need two and a half aircraft, that’s over a billion dollars of just kit,” he said.

“And then every year you’re talking hundreds of millions of dollars of fuel and then hundreds of millions of dollars of people cost, so you’re investing effectively over $2bn to start a new dot on a map – and you’re flying over a current hub (such as Sydney).”

There is a “chicken and egg sort of dichotomy” in that airlines want demand to justify a direct service, Mr Cox noted – but people are less likely to go if a direct flight is not available in the first place.

Despite this, Mr Cox believes Adelaide has major opportunities to boost airline traffic – and turbocharge the tourism sector – with flights from Japan, North America, parts of Asia without direct links, New Zealand’s South Island and China.

Mr Cox has produced a map that shows possible connections for 2050 saying “it is not entirely crazy that one day we will be connected direct to London.” (The map shows direct connections rather than actual routes).

“This is 2050 – you show this to some people and they choke on their corn flakes,” he said.

“But this is not just made up dots on maps. This economic modelling is linked with what we know about aircraft technology orders over the next two to three decades, so all of this is genuinely realistic. And they’ll all come on board at different times.

“It really is sort of exciting to think that as long as our population continues to grow, that we do get that tourism balance and reach the potential we know that we have, that Adelaide will continue to be the wonderful city that it is but also entirely connected to the world.

“It is really exciting to imagine what that could look like and we’ve got a passionate, ambitious team of people and stakeholders all working towards this.”

South Australia’s visitor economy hit a record $8.1bn in the year to December 2019, then Covid hit and it slumped to $4.4bn in the year to March 2021.

It is now back to $7.3bn for the year to September 2022 and Tourism Minister Zoe Bettison says the state is back on track to its goal of $12.8bn by 2030 – arrivals to Adelaide Airport are a crucial part of the equation.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sou ... 2b3ddbf22a

[abc]

Adelaide Airport chief outlines grand plan to fly direct to 37 major world cities... in 2050

[rev]

Here's the images from the article including the map of their target destinations.

[rubberman]

Adelaide Airport chief outlines grand plan to fly direct to 37 major world cities... in 2050

With a multi billion dollar asset like the Airport, you have to plan 30 years ahead. Heck, just getting approvals for major works can take ten years. Then doing it in stages can take just as long. Airport management can't just say one day: "Gee, it's getting a bit crowded here, so let's add a few more gates next month." It's more, "What's it going to be like in 2040, and we have to start the process NOW to be ready by then."

One thing to note is there's no mention of shifting the airport.

[abc]

Here's the images from the article including the map of their target destinations.

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I suspect New Delhi will trump London before too long

[Ho Really]

No mention of the Plaza Premium Lounge opening last Friday (17 FEB)?

Cheers